The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Feels so good to be quoted

The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders

In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness

Look within - there is no end!

I am art. I am authentic. I am love. I am me.

Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.

I read to make myself feel awake.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

All language is a longing for home.

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.