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

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

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

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.

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.

Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet?

I have often been downcast, but never in despair.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.