Willow

“Be alone. That’s when and where you will refresh. Be a stranger someplace for some odd amount of time. Introduce you to you. Try on new thoughts like sneakers. Walk up and back. How’s the toe feel?

Recharge and welcome the new year like you’d welcome a happy puppy returning a stick. Tail wagging, tongue out. Then mix in with those who unbecame to become their best selves, too.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Nature is watching you.”
― koko-the-gorilla

“No," said Oceola simply. "This is mine. . . . Listen! . . . How sad and gay it is. Blue and happy -- laughing and crying. . . . How white like you and black like me. . . . How much like a man. . . . And how much like a woman. . . . Warm as Pete's mouth. . . . These are the blues. . . . I'm playing.”
― Langston Hughes, The Ways of White Folks

“An adult male who’d paired an inexpensive t-shirt with a pair of jeans that cost more than ninety dollars was generally a man with a nice nest egg somewhere.”
― K. Alex Walker, Angels & Assassins