Status Updates From Black Liturgies: Prayers, P...

“I know who I am. The sound is unmistakable.

But the question is- am I safe enough, am I well enough, am I loved enough to be able to admit it?”

Wow!!! This was personal, tender, specific and so vulnerable!!! Thank you to whoever recommended this to me.

Definitely reading this again and would continue to reference it. Review coming soon 😍❤️🥰

“For you, I want more - I want friendship, romance, family. I want a community that would not destroy you. I want belonging that isn’t always at risk, that isn’t always being threatened.

For you,I want the sense of self required to walk away.

To be known is not frivolous. It is survival. You will not survive by self care and self love alone.

Who would hold you? Who would remember you?”

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“‘i want to fly. i want to touch the sun.’

‘finish your eggs first.’”

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“If my hands can take it, I’m going to wash my hair today.

Wash day is my dignity ritual. It requires precisely the same tenderness and patience the world withholds from black women.”

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“I believe and still largely do that the most trustworthy and perhaps meaningful literature could be found in the economy of the short story, the nuance of the memoir, the imagery of the poem.

You come to poetry not out of what you know but out of what you wonder.”

OMG!!! This is so tender and well written so far 😍🥰❤️