Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
STEPHANIE BRIARTo the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.
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I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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