Amelita

“If it doesn't burn a little then what's the point of playing with fire?”
― bridgett devoue

“there is peaceful.
there is wild.
i am both at the same time.”
― nayyirah waheed, Nejma

“I want quiet thunder.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned

“Invisible

She scanned through the magazine
for girls who looked like her
with deeper hues,
flat nose, and thick hair.

The day she turned fifteen
she scrubbed herself with bleach
while screaming for God,
whispering over and over again
"the darker the skin,
the deeper the struggle"
releasing a sigh
that made her soul shake.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada