“Truth is like a mirror that penetrates the souls of the invisible.”
Tag: inspiration
You Don’t Wanna Know
“…the instrument behind all this poetry…..yea…U don’t really wanna know bout the degradation it took to straighten my pen into this position…what it took to have the courage to wear my feelings on my sleeves….and to bleed words for a living.”
Strive
“I can hardly walk in heels, but mama taught us to reach for the sky tho they said we couldn’t afford it.”
Struggle
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
What I love most about this quote is that struggle is such a powerful teacher. It passes down the knowledge of self, which without such cannot be obtained. If not for the hardships many of us have been through we would not have understood who we were as individuals. It is a healing experience to transform the mind by having endured struggle, pain, obstacles. No discipline seems pleasant at the time we receive it, but what in creation produces a greater reward than enduring struggle? Show me a better teacher than pain.
The Mis-Education of the Negro
“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his “proper place” and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door; he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.” – Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
We Weaken Ourselves
“The only time anything possesses power over us is when we weaken ourselves.”
Hopeless
The blazing echo of darkness as it hovers its deception over welcoming eyes….
is it easiest to speak of morning than to actually believe that it exists?
are we walking contradictions….
do we fill our hearts with hope and yet…are we hopeless?
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