S. Jones's Blog, page 52

what made you stay

wordswoman:

how many times have

you let someone hurt you

because they claimed to

have feelings for you?

and what made you think

this was okay?

what made you swallow

all the words

being birthed in your mouth,

all the fight brewing in your belly?

what made you silence

all the little voices in your head-

"you deserve better than this"

"this is not love"

"it cannot be love"

what made you stay?

"Someday someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you’ve never seen, they’ll look..."

“Someday someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you’ve never seen, they’ll look at you like you’re everything they’ve been looking for their entire lives. Wait for it.”

- Unknown (via erraticintrovert)

"there is normal. there is wild. i am both at the same time."

“there is normal.

there is wild.

i am both at the same time.”

- one, nayyirah waheed (via ajna-aakhu)

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude..."

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

- Louise Erdrich (via ajna-aakhu)

"Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in..."

“Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I’ve seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I’ve felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I’m careful about what I give voice to.”

- Toni Cade Bambara (via ajna-aakhu)

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"Come with all that you are,Everything you are-I have been waiting for you."

“Come with all that you are,

Everything you are-

I have been waiting for you.”

- (via wordswoman)

"Where there is a woman, there is magic."

“Where there is a woman, there is magic.”

- Ntozake Shange. (via curvesincolor)

atribecalledhiphop:My god

atribecalledhiphop:

My god

Jah9 - Mr. Right

Jah9 - Mr. Right