Laura

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
― Bill Bullard

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“You are not an apology, do not treat yourself like one; your lips are perfect for kissing, your hips do not spell 'sorry'.”
― Azra T.

“I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth