“Its been a while since a new face learned my favorite things.”

Skin is just the softest cage.

Dear hands, Don’t let them tell you art is a hopeless pursuit art my friends is pursuing light for the hopeless.

When I think of things that fade from reach I see birds and balloons, life and love, me and you.

Pain has one name but finds you through many.

My longing for intimacy does not abandon the love I’ve built for myself.

My longing for intimacy does not abandon the love I’ve built for myself.

When we die plant us close so life grows from our love still. Even in death my chest will bloom for you.

A vicious cycle of becoming the thing that hurt you the most- Life.

If i never find the words for how much you mean to me you’re all the best ones and then some, love.

Love me fearlessly for everything I am and all the things I come with.

When I love I leave nothing for the dogs.

If words could scatter flesh the way it feels inside the heart i’d be holding up the walls in the house of our goodbye.

Do you remember when I felt like home?

If drowning taught me how to swim, this fall will teach me how to fall.

To be struck with a force you cannot match if not death it must be love.

The death of imagination is the end of all possibility.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Forever dreaming of a faraway place, where the sun melts my sorrows and blows kisses on my face.

I don`t want to dress up a picture with just my face.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the ‘me too’ movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that’s what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

When I face myself, I go, “You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That’s what we’re gonna do right now.

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.