Tai

“i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own

i want to feel so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of
us combined
could set
it on fire”
― Rupi Kaur

“You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Perhaps that was the nature of love: either a person was not in it enough to care, or was in it too deeply to make anything but mistakes.”
― Lori Ostlund, After the Parade

“let her be born / let her be born / & handled warmly.”
― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf