Love Quotes

Some photographers take reality and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

It’s hard to grow when you are weighed down by the people you love in the past.

I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

I see myself through your eyes and I love what I see. So please never look way.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

You decided you loved me when I decided I was done waiting.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die. My voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet. I’d love to be tall and willowy. I’m short.

My love is like a trigonometry problem simplified by my heart’s mint green genies, the broken being in me sings a million epiphanies, my life is but colors spilled in polaroids of caring butterflies.