“Healing can look a lot like violence.”

These hands keep a score of everything.

I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.

Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.

I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.

You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.

You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.

Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.

Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.

I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.

I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.

Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.

Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.

Its okay if all you did this year was survive.

Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.

The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.

We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

Don’t go through life trying to please everyone. If you try to keep every person happy, the one person that won’t be happy is you.

Worry is interest paid before it’s due.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.