Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.

Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry—women of color.

It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations.

You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant.

Don’t mistake salt for sugar. If he wants to be with you he will. It’s that simple.

You are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting.

Other women’s bodies are not our battle grounds.

Nothing is safer than the sound of you reading aloud to me—the perfect date.

You were so afraid of my voice I decided to be afraid of it too.

If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not.

It takes monsters to steal souls and fighters to reclaim them.

How easy is it for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as I answered cause people have not been kind to me.

The thing about writing is I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying.

How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

People go but how they left always stays

For you to see beauty here does not mean there is beauty in me it means there is beauty rooted so deep within you you can’t help but see it everywhere.

I am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away

The kindest words my father said to me Women like you drown oceans.

If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise.

I am a museum full of art, but you had your eyes shut.

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.