Kristen

“something about the way black women hold your heart. You can leave them all you like but you can’t stay gone.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“i’ve spent years trying to figure out how i could have stopped it but the sun can’t stop the storm from coming the tree can’t stop the ax”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“let her be born / let her be born / & handled warmly.”
― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf