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Your mom is your blood and bone before your body even knows how to make any.
Being afraid of the world, of unknown beasts, only makes you feel alone. Sometimes you just need to get on the plane and hope nothing bad happens.
In some regions, this does happen, but there’s something odd about other people using depictions of this holiday with no thought to when it actually takes place. Imagine if brown people kept making movies in which people were celebrating President’s Day for no discernible reason.
A place, any place, can be beautiful and perfect and damaged and dangerous at the same time.
That’s where her roots get pulled out.
I just want to rub coconut oil in her hair and tell her that she is in my bones, no matter where she ends up.
It changes you, when you see someone similar to you, doing the thing you might want to do yourself.
We are deeply afraid of making marginalized voices stronger, because we think it makes privileged ones that much weaker.
No one learns how to be mean at twenty-five. No one actually becomes a hardline racist in their thirties. These are beliefs and behaviours we inherit from our bloodlines, from the people who raised us, and the internet is just another way to put those beliefs to work.
If I’ve learned anything from white women, it’s that the best kind of yoga is the kind you talk about fucking constantly.)
Your life’s greatest heartbreaks are so often your friends: dating isn’t always built for permanence, but friendship often is.
But the only way to do better, to have better, is to lose pieces of what was. It’s inevitable that you can’t bring everything with you, like carrying water in your cupped hands from one river to another. There are too many cracks, and if you’re so eager to move, you’ll just have to get used to new water.
You are a ray of sunshine in this dark, ominous world.
