Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.
OBEHI VESSEL A.Everyone claims they want the truth. Just not in all her bright entirety. We’d rather she visit in dim shades of light, that won’t hurt our eyes.
More Obehi Vessel A. Quotes
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I no longer ask humans, for a definition of love. For, they tend to force on her, the traits of those who have either treated them well or not at all.
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Past lifetimes do not concern me. Whatever memory succumbs to be forgotten, is one I do not aspire to repeat.
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It is the silliness of youth to trust time.
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Both strong and weak may survive; if neither takes too seriously, the titles of ‘strong’ and ‘weak’.
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And, when it comes to counting our blessings; we humans are all bad at math.
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To know more, I must first admit that I know nothing. Only on a blank page, can words be written.
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At present, Nations are burning. But, their leaders mistake the ash for snow.
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Some days are heavy. Not meant to be carried alone.
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How abstract we humans sound, when we say these are dark times. As though it isn’t in our hands that paint our times.
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When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.en you have no love, you’re poor.
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I used to believe that living is doing, moving, getting. But, there is life in staying still. A bird is a bird even when she isn’t flying.
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“No” is such a controversial word. Clear, resounding when uttered by men. By women, Low, muffled. Sounds like “yes.”
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Time ensures that we heal; not that we forget; In forgetting how a scar came to be, is to silently invite another injury.
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A problem ignored, has two outcomes. The illusion that it is gone, and the reality of one problem becoming more.
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A lot of my mistakes, are birthed by curiosity. Like a child, drawn to fire; I came for the light and found pain instead.
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