Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.

younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you

never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them, you are invisible.

No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.

the worstthing that ever happenedtothe worldwasthe white man coming across gun powder.–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy

as a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writer

i am a woman and a poem. – visceral

there is no healthier drug than creativity.

Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire.

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.

Those who want respect, give respect.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

I married my husband who is thirteen years older, so I will always be a trophy wife for him.

Stand tall and believe in yourself