Upile Chisala > Quotes

“I am dripping melanin and honey. I am black without apology.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“it is when we don't believe we are enough for ourselves
that we start looking for people to drown in.”
― Upile Chisala

“fighting sadness is necessary war.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“get in the habit of celebrating yourself from skin to marrow, you are magic.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“and today,
your bones
gathered your skin
and said
'Come on, let's do it again”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Today and all days, I am thankful for women of color who love/write/create/emote from the root and never apologize for their magic.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“honey, you need to say the thing before it forms a storm in your chest. you can't keep carrying anger in your bones because you are too afraid of letting poison out. freeing yourself from the thing won't make you serpentine.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“I hope you never stop talking about your dreams and what you want out of this rough, beautiful life.”
― Upile Chisala, nectar

“He has found galaxies
in between the thighs of other girls
and suddenly the world
I was planning to offer him
just isn't enough”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Do not accept the love of a man who makes you feel small, the universe is already so vast. 2. You are innately beautiful and completely irreplaceable. 3. You don’t have to go far to find love and validation, start from within. 4. Boys are boys and men are mean, tell them apart. 5. Be alone often, as you are, but don’t that turn into loneliness. 6. Remember to remain gentle. 7. Don’t stay angry at the world too long. Seek out life in little things and move past sadness. 8. Touch somebody, with your hands or with your heart, with your words or with your silence. Share yourself. 9. Celebrate your skin. 10. Be yourself and never apologize for being someone you love.  ”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“I write you poems because God spoke the universe into existence, so don’t ever let me hear you say that words are just words. that words don’t leave a mark, make a change, create where once was nothing.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“all the lovely women living in your blood are trying to teach you their soft magic, please pay attention to them.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“now that I know the soft magic of your laugh and how your body moves like art, why would I ever go back? what was before you?”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“You do yourself and those who could love you a
disservice when you make yourself smaller; when
you eat your words or use less of your light.”
― Upile Chisala, Nectar

“I hope to do with words what dancers do with limbs.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Darling,
you deserve a full meal of love. Stop
snacking.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Please try not to cheat yourself out of happiness
You deserve all the damned chances and all the damned tries”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“here you are,
black and woman and in love with yourself.
you are terrifying.
they are terrified.
(as they should be)”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“don’t ever let me hear you say that words are just words.
that
words don’t leave a mark,
make a change,
create where once was nothing.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Don’t stay angry at the world too long.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“you were the first thing outside of myself that I looked at and felt connected to, do you understand this?”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Trust me
I know how to fix myself,
how to mend and burn and bend and shape,
I know how to make myself something new,
so don't stay around out of pity,
leave me broken and I will find my way back to wholeness”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Tomorrow, you might remember these things differently.
Maybe with less angst, less spite, less water in your eyes.
Tomorrow, these things might not hurt you as much.”
― Upile Chisala

“Darling,
There is no such thing as a coin with one side.
I am both honey and lemon.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Touch somebody, with your hands or with your heart, with your words or with your silence.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“Yes, I've got all kinds of misery.
I've got it and it's got me.
But I've been growing the language
to cast it out.
And the feet to dance it
gone.
And the bravery to let something
kinder take its place.”
― Upile Chisala

“My darling,
you are the color of the earth
you inherited holy.

Let no one silence the goodness inyour bones.
Let no one ever make you doubt your might.
You are important.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“people who only wish to stifle your bloom,
do not belong in your garden.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“darling,
I am a country you shouldn’t go near.
I am at war with myself.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

“we used to burn for each other,
remember?”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.