Tracy

“white people try to take blackness. pour it out rub it into their skin and wear us like they know what we about. but honey it’s only ever gon’ be a suntan. you ain’t neva gon’ be black. – tan | stealing from the sun”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

“there are feelings. you haven’t felt yet. give them time. they are almost here. – fresh”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“i bleed every month. but do not die. how am i not magic. – the lie”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.