Favorite Quotes

“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

"...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you; we are in charge of our attitudes."

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”

“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Dreaming III

Alone with Pain & Frustration,
unable to verbalize my thoughts
or process what I was feeling,
I sat at the edge of Lunacy
before falling asleep at Sorrow's bank.
You must have felt me.
We must still be interconnected.
How else would you have known
to meet here at the very moment
I succumbed?
How else would you have known
to bring hugs and apologies
and Comfort?
How would you have known
to say "Keep living. It gets better?"
I was fading without warning.
You saved me again.
I arose with Contentment
to make peace with Love.
We, survivors, must empathize
with one another,
and Love, too,
has withstood arduous pain.

Written 02/14/18, Posted 11/03/18