quotes
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I Love You
“I love you in a language that I don’t fully understand…in words that I haven’t found enough courage to forklift out of my chest.” – Rudy Francisco Continue reading
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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.” Continue reading
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Strive
“I can hardly walk in heels, but mama taught us to reach for the sky tho they said we couldn’t afford it.” Continue reading
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Reflections
“The only thing rebellion hates more than truth is a mirror.” Continue reading
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The Day You Give Up
“The day you give up the fight is the day you have lost the battle.” Continue reading
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Disappointments
Like Decembers steal color from the trees…like the sky when it erases the sun and we are left to do without the light…like life …wrapped and stuffed into bottles of deception…like whitewashed hopes and American nightmares… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
