Brandi

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“my god is not waiting inside a church or sitting above the temple’s steps my god is the refugee’s breath as she’s running is living in the starving child’s belly is the heartbeat of the protest my god does not rest between pages written by holy men my god lives between the sweaty thighs of women’s bodies sold for money was last seen washing the homeless man’s feet my god is not as unreachable as they’d like you to think my god is beating inside us infinitely”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“i have survived far too much to go quietly let a meteor take me call the thunder for backup my death will be grand the land will crack the sun will eat itself - the day i leave”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“That’s history. It happened whether it offends you or not. Quite a bit of it offends me, but there’s nothing I can do about it.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred