“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right — that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don’t. It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don’t wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he. You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can’t value you more than you value yourself.”
—Toni Morrison (via honestwanderlustheart)
May 2012
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“To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now.”
—(via sublimesea)
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I loved you on purpose /
I was open on purpose /
I still crave vulnerability & close talk…
” —Ntozake Shange, “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf”. (via lovepassiton)
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“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
—Jess C. Scott, 1: The Intern (via beautiful-ambition)
“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
—THOMAS MANN (via tobia)
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via delucazade)
“This body is made beautiful, is made divine, because it is a vessel for the Most High.”
—affirmation. (via luaunomi)
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The Roots - The Fire
Burn like a chariot, learn how to carry it
Maverick, always above and beyond average
Fuel to the flame that I train with and travel with
Something in my eyes say I’m so close to having the prize
I realise I’m supposed to reach for the skies
Never let somebody try to tell you otherwise-Black Thought
The Fire :: The Roots
