Gaba

“My son … he … he said he came alive in Tahrir.”
― Omar Robert Hamilton, The City Always Wins

“Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“The fact that men use emotional withholding as a weapon of psychological terrorism is never discussed.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed