never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible.
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Nayyirah Waheed
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when you allow that man. to walk through your children. plant his feet. in their veins. hold their voices. necks. bodies. inside his violence. you are no longer a mother. when you give him the key to that door. because you need to be loved by someone. you have seasoned them for the wolf. burned their childhood into a fantasy. it__ going to take a third of their lives. all the courage. from their cells to their hair. to learn the alchemetic formula that turns that kind of betrayal. a demothering. soft. liveable. _ before you get that key made
my mother gave me islam.my father gave me the god of absence.and here i am.a religion made of myself.
Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.