“I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.”

My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.

Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.

If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.

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 am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

If you never quit, youll never fail.

If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it’s part of growing up.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Time is a funny thing- Flies fast, though constant it slows near large objects, black holes, and you.

We fall in love with eyes and lies.