Bianca de Koning

“you ask your heart why it is always hurting. it says ‘this is the only thing you will allow me to say to you. the only feeling you are willing to feel.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“cruel mothers are still mothers. they make us wars. they make us revolution. they teach us the truth. early. mothers are humans. who sometimes give birth to their pain. instead of children. – hate”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma