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“My mother's anger humiliates me; her words chafe my cheeks, and I am crying. I do not know that she is not angry at me but at my sickness.”
― Toni Morrison (Narrator) Toni Morrison (Author), The Bluest Eye

“Anxiety is its own creature. It asks me to focus on the terrible things I’ve done, the people I’ve hurt, the promises I’ve broken. Anxiety tells me to make a list - mistakes, regrets, lies - a coil ready to spring.”
― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

“It was impossible to make it through the tragedy
Without poetry. What are we without winds becoming words?”
― Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

“Every poem is a prayer, a supplication in the cacophony of humanity.”
― Joy Harjo, Catching the Light

“I straighten the blanket over her, to keep her warm for dignity.”
― Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise