Bárbara Oliveira

“Everything I read was about us, not by us.”
― Lizzie Huxley-Jones, Being an Ally

“I often think of how much love is lost as gay kids grow up. We are robbed of the chance to experience the innocence of early teenage love. Because you spend all that time filled with fear, mastering your own pretense.”
― Chukwuebuka Ibeh, Blessings

“Being intelligent does not mean you don't have an asshole living inside your head.”
― Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

“it's time to be curious about what lives in the ocean of you beyond the island of other people's needs. caregiver, are you curious? what if i told you: you don't need to heal others to heal yourself. you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself. you can just love yourself. within healer and helper, there is warrior, there is priestess, there is holy whore. who knows all the things you could be?”
― Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls