February 2011
112 posts
Random Thoughts By Bassey: I need to stop... →
basseyworld:
I need to stop forgetting that I’m a brave girl. A woman who follows her heart even if it leads her off a cliff. I know I’m strong enough to climb back up, dust myself off, laugh at the ridiculous of it all and still find room in my heart to allow someone to enter. I need to stop forgetting that I’m a brave girl. That my heart is equal parts glass and stone. The stone protects the...
“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
– E. E. Cummings (via itookadeepbreath, quote-book) (via teachingliteracy) (via harlemink)
“Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via blackpadfoot)
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via itookadeepbreath)
“Too many think I’m a concept. Or I complete them. Or I’m gonna make them alive....”
– Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (via noldarling)
“We, the Black women of today, must accept the full weight of a legacy wrought in...”
– Angela Davis (via noldarling)
Nola Darling: Mo(u)rning Sunlight →
noldarling:
Belonging to my exposed skin, You mold warm around collarbone. Effortlessly. Rising to the thought of you, I am available. And you’re easy.
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The evening has hurried herself here With no consideration for our exchanges and I am itching for the caress of your heat. Whimpering to ghosts Who taunt me in the dark spaces you’ve left behind.
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But I am learning...
