There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.

he placed his handson my mindbefore reachingfor my waistmy hipsor my lipshe didn't call mebeautiful firsthe called meexquisite - how he touches me

stayi whisperedas youshut the door behind you

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference

despite knowingthey won’t be here for longthey still choose to livetheir brightest lives- sunflowers

a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you

isn't it such a tragic thing when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't

i am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here with expectationsand try to make a vacation out of me

i am watersoft enoughto offer lifetough enoughto drown it away

for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Work in such a way that your work will glorify the Lord

I think you could wear a paper bag and still look good.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.