“I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.”

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

Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.

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.

Healing can look a lot like violence.

Can we just pretend we are wanted?

It was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, ‘You can always go to college, but you can’t always go pro.’ That made sense to me.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

When God decides its time, I guess he’ll come for us.

There’s a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that’s very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.