Dawn

“if you show someone the sun in your bones and they reject you you must remember. they hurt themselves this very same way. – unable”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“you see your face. you see a flaw. how. if you are the only one who has this face. – the beauty construct”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“all the women. in me. are tired.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma