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, March 13, 2021

Triggers

Some people are scared to leave home, but I am afraid to return. I fear forgetting all the freedom I've learned. I fear the masks. I fear my lies - the safe ones I tell for others and the explosives buried deep inside. I fear the expectations, questions, and judgements. I fear discovering I am not nomadic. I fear desiring to lay roots down again. I fear the recognition and the unfamiliarity. I fear the ways my eyes always betray me. I fear taming my tongue and speaking my mind. I fear that it will be too little and too much time. And...Perhaps too much time has already passed. What if I will never return home again? My greatest fear is that.
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