Rhema

“If you can finally go to the bathroom wherever you find one, if you can finally order a cup of coffee and drink it wherever coffee is available, but you cannot follow your heart-you cannot respect the response of your own honest body in the world-then how much of what kind of freedom does any one of us possess?
Or, conversely, if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force?”
― June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“Quiet the noise and tune in, recognize the heartbeat that pounds away at your chest. This is life. A precious gift we receive from our ancestors; a mercy that leads us to days forward. Your existence was not by coincidence but by calculated orchestration.”
― Ehime Ora, Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices

“People find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“we must be honest, and not interpret this lack of courage as humility, since it is really pride, whereas the courage of faith is the only humble courage.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection