To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
STEPHANIE BRIARThe pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.
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