Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.