Malebo Sephodi > Quotes

“Reinvent yourself over and over and over and over and over until you find home. There is no timeline for the soul.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...

No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders”
― Malebo Sephodi

“MoonChild be free.
Free from the tides of being boxed.
Free from the norms of those who status quo.
Find your path and follow it to the moon.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“I am art.
I am authentic.
I am love.
I am me.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“May you choose yourself, always!”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Oh Child

Look within

Find your ForeMothers

Find them

Find them”
― Malebo Sephodi

“When you know you're ENOUGH!

When you stop focusing on all things that you're not.
When you stop fussing over perceived flaws.
When you remove all imposed and unbelievable expectations on yourself.
When you start celebrating yourself more.
When you focus on all that you are.
When you start believing that your perceived flaws are just that - perception...”
― Malebo Sephodi

“How to heal

Read Books
Listen to Jazz
Ride Motorbikes
Get Tattooed”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“It's time to reclaim your life..
One breath at a time.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“If you can help it, do not die bored or uninspired”
― Malebo Sephodi

“What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out.”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“We should, at all times, insist that we belong to ourselves and have the agency to make decisions about our own lives. Our voices, whether loud or soft, matter. Our behaviour, whether seen as 'good' or 'bad', remains our choice.”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“Expand!
You are not small.
Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Take time off...

The world will not fall apart without you”
― Malebo Sephodi

“In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power.”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“Look within - there is no end!”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Sometimes, survival is about navigating the thin line between rage and joy”
― malebo sephodi

“I am magic
I know it
I own it
I walk it”
― Malebo Sephodi

“I want to live in a liberated intersectional society. As long as inequality and discrimination exists, I cannot be satisfied with the life that we are forced to live. Everyone deserves to lead the life they want to and not what is prescribed for them. We must be who we want to be. In this we must be happy.
I am also tired of seeing black people fight to live. This is what drives my activism. I literally (as clichéd as it sounds), dream of a moment where we can be free to exist as we want to.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Self-love for me means accepting who I am and dealing with the perceived flaws that I live with”
― Malebo Sephodi

“I am shedding.
I am not a new me.
I am my old me in my new me.
I remain, carved with the soul of my knife.
My mess scattered all over my countenance.
I am me.
Take me as I am.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Quote Black Women to keep their words ablaze beyond any fire”
― Malebo Sephodi

“To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to upset patriarchy, a system that is intent on controlling and marginalising others.”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“Existing in this era comes with many contradictions. Contradictions because we have so much to unlearn.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“On top of dealing with the emotional trauma associated with conscious and unconscious recalling, you must deal with the possibility of no one believing you or making you doubt your experiences. When women speak out about their abusers, they have to deal with the police and society not believing them”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“How many chances have I given you?

Enough!

There are no more lives left inside of me.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Now that you find yourself here, what are you going to do?”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“The healing will no longer be theorised and wished upon
One day
We will be walking manifest of healing”
― Malebo Sephodi