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But if I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would never tell anyone else! My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it is
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“What if the work resisted restraint because it was not meant to be restrained? What if she had very nearly everything she needed for the book to take shape, except for the courage to let it find its own shape? She stopped wrestling with the work so she could dance with it instead. I watched the wheels turn right in front of me, and I saw in Austin a mind simultaneously at work and play. I saw a writer doing their job and a woman remembering who the hell she was and what she wanted.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
“For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.
As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.
Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.
As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.
As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.
As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.
May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”
― To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.
As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.
Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.
As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.
As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.
As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.
May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”
― To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
“What you do is less important than the difference you make.”
― Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
― Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
“This isn’t about my performance at all. This is about wanting me gone so they can hire a volunteer, family member, or friend. The newest darling they’ve fallen in love with. Someone who’s a better “culture fit.” They aren’t assessing my work, they’re building a case. And I know it because there are only two things in the world I’m good at, and one of them is speaking.”
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
― Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-possession
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