Octavia White

“and perhaps
what made her beautiful
was not her appearance
or what she achieved,
but in her love
and in her courage,
and her audacity
to believe:
no matter
the darkness
around her,
Light ran wild
within her,
and that was the way
she came alive,
and it showed up
in everything.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols

“The sun is still shining,
the wind is still blowing,
and out in the wild
you are growing.
Days may go by
without change
you can feel,
but what's happening here
is most certainly real:
You are becoming
what you were meant
to become
out in the wild
in the arms of the sun.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“Not everyone will notice the way you shine, but you will shine all the same in beautiful, natural ways.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols

“She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living