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

“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

“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

“Take time off...

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

“Expand!
You are not small.
Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!”
― 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 magic
I know it
I own it
I walk it”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Look within - there is no end!”
― 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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“It is traumatic to find out that so much of what you have been taught to believe and stand for is actually used to control you”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“I write for...

I wish I could write purely for fun – I wish I could wake up in the morning and write about the bees and the trees and the leaves. But there is a burden that sits on my shoulder and this is why I write.
I write for…
All the Black women who didn’t make it
All the Black women with tapes on their mouths
All the Black women whose tongues were cut by violation
All the Black women who lost their surnames not by choice
I mould my words for…
All the Black girls who think the world is innocent
All the Black girls who still dream
All the Black girls whose eyes are still clear – not tainted by nights of weeping
I write for my grandmother
I write for my mother
I write for me
I write for us
Sometimes I don’t know why I write
But what I know is this
I must write”
― Malebo Sephodi

“There is plenty of work that needs to be done by men to dismantle patriarchy”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“How many chances have I given you?

Enough!

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