“How to be a poet – call yourself one and pick up a pen.”

Are you using your device or is the device using you? You, using using using using devices using you.

Part human and part ocean. A woman who must transform, a woman and a thunderstorm.

I meditate I sit and wait I let my soul.

The things that I fear have no power here as I stand on this altar with you, my dear.

And here, on the edge I look below where there are so many many unknowns.

Caterpillars must grow- destroy what it is you think you know.

Don’t stall find yourself in the free fall.

Worry is a wasteful thing eating up moments that could taste sweet.

Surrender, dear- There are so many, many things you will only find if you let go of your fears.

Risk being seen for all that you are including those parts that you call scars.

Breathing dreams like air.

Not unafraid, but moving a tiny bravery is a large one always always always this.

When you stop chasing a butterfly, it may land. This is a lot like love.

When anger rises up I let it breathe. A fire burns out, eventually.

I choose to learn this lesson so i don’t have to carry it anymore.

Power over the self and no desire to control anything else.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.