Your voice is meant to heard even if you’ve been made to feel otherwise. I pray that you allow yourself the rest necessary to dream up bold worlds and even timid, cowering ones.
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I pray that for every ounce of bitterness you endure as you battle to deliver your art, you'll know the sweetness of perseverance and reward ten times over.
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No, I wanted to die young and beautiful and moving, lean and mean. My mother and daddy looked at each other and chuckled. They knew my folly when I did not.
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She was deflating the notion that women must box and bury their aspirations because they birthed babies. She did not give up her life for us. She taught us how to thrive in the world she was creating.
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You don't have to deprive and punish yourself for not immediately being who you want to become. Drop yourself some breadcrumbs. Pour yourself a little more honey.
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You know what I love about Toni Morrison’s work? If you’re a living, breathing, curious human you can’t read her stuff and not be engaged. It’s a knee-jerk reaction to read Morrison and get all kinds of involved. She gets in your bloodstream.
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Ummm. Yeah, so I’m Sparrow Rollins. And I’m trying to save my own life. And I know that that’s way heavier than I’m supposed to say but I’m kinda at that point, you know?
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You think because them wingtips 'a yours shine like moonshine that you different from all these other cottonmouths crawling up behind us every night? No, baby. The side ‘a the tracks don’t matter, y’all all slither the same.
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