“Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.”

As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.

She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.

When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.

Alone is the safest I have ever felt.

These hands keep a score of everything.

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

Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.

I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.

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.

Its okay if all you did this year was survive.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

When you let people upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Just make sure you never do less than your best.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

No matter how much we plan and prepare, life calls and we have to answer.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.