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“You don’t have to fix anything to deserve love. I love you for who you are. You can fuck up. You can do whatever you want and you’ll still deserve love.”
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
“but i am what i
am. woman. alone
amid all this noise.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
am. woman. alone
amid all this noise.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“Today, home from Trinidad, I thank James Arthur Baldwin for his legacy of fire. A fine rain of words when we had no tongues. He set fire to our eyes. Made a single look, gesture endure. Made a people meaningful and moral. Responsible finally for all our sweet and terrible lives.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“Forgiveness is this act of love where you say to someone, ‘You’re an imperfect being and I still love you.’ You want to have this energy of ‘We’re not giving up on each other; we’re in this for the long haul. You hurt me. And, yes, I hurt you. And I’m sorry, but you’re still mine.’ ”
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
“i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
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