Emiley Mallory

“you will drown if you do not have boundaries. they are not optional. this structure counts on your inability to say no. mean no. they take no from our first breath. go back and return it to your mouth. your heart. your light. – swim | women of color”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“i am such a sensitive summer thing.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“sometimes the night wakes in the middle of me. and i can do nothing but become the moon.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with ‘being a man.’ ‘being a man’ had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt