Status Updates From Woke Up No Light

“They say all things are meant to be. Except for you. You were a breath meant to stay inside my body.”

I really liked this!!! This was smart and also sharp! Motley is fast becoming one of my favorite writers 😍❤️🥰

“The second tenth hundredth worst thing they ever did was force us to integrate the cafeteria.

I do not want to sit next to Natalie. Natalie is not my friend.

Don’t get me wrong. I have white friends and they leave me scalding. I love them and we are two ends of a string pulled taut.

I am always destined to let go first.

I am always the one left to fall.”

Leila - step off my neck please. This is 🔥

“Woke up no light
Woke up to a phone call. Life insurance gone up

America is obsessed with the runway
See but don’t touch
Rich but no money in the bank
Diverse but no black folks in the building “

Ms. Motley, The writer that you are!!! 🔥😩😍🥰❤️

A case for / against reparations:

“I want a return of the vertebrae I was born without. I have contorted, bent, braced, ached like earthquake return to fault line.

I want an acre for every apology that never materialized in sound”

OMG!!! This is so BEAUTIFUL!!! My heart!!!😫😍🥰

unbelievable