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"amber says, lying is the work
of those who have been taught that their truths have no value."

"was it me or you (or does it take two)
that turned the circle of our arms
into this private battleground?"

"put my tongue between your teeth like turning a key in a lock
built a fire between your legs to keep us warm."

"just so, i clambered into your rib cage
reclined in the shadow of your spine
all the while knowing
you can’t make homes out of human beings"

""you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave,
let him leave"
—Warsan Shire, “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love”

"i want to go dancing with you
and set fire to Eden
the gods will never sleep again"

"if we had no jewels
we would wear memory and rage
if we had no gowns
we would wear the storm"

"our beauty is dangerous,
has always been,
because it refuses to be contained by definition,"

"they wanted to teach us to be less than our desire,
taught us to desire less,
to forego instead of become"

"violence is pretty a funny thing
isn’t it?
go ahead and laugh.
laugh."

"is it sacrifice that makes a mother
is it suffering that makes a woman
is it sacrifice
suffering
sacrifice
suffering?"

"love me for my anger, it whispers.
love me for my need. love me for my jealousy, my weakness, my greed.
my cruelty, my viciousness, my vanity, my shame. love me for my ugliness.
love me when i scream.."

"you have always been here. nd i am reminded that though the body of the ocean may change, though the waters may shift, the salt always remains."

"i want you to know that i am terrifying
i am scared shitless of the person i become"

"some mornings, when you wake up
you see that you have scratched your palms raw
while sleeping
your dreaming self would like to escape
through your hands."

"we will make love with our teeth
or not at all"

"he will leave you with his shape
impressed upon your bones"

"i want to be able to honestly
tell the difference between those who didn’t make it and
those we left behind"

"where are our elders? who can teach us how to justice, not just on tumblr
but on the dance floor    in our homes    in each other’s arms?"

"why is it fear
stops us from hurting each other
and love seems to do the opposite?"

"i’m as good at keeping
secrets    as anyone else
in this sceneafter all, the one thing that all of us
trannies faggots dykes butches femmes kinksters fairies
really have in common is that we know all about
how to hide the truth in plain sight."

"when i realized that your revolution was different from mine
you fought for the right to love freely
and i fought to be loved at all."

"i said yes.

They made me."

"so when They came
asking for obedience, Nothing said yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes.
yes to the light and the darkness and the desire. yes to being born. yes
to blow jobs for nothing at three in the morning, yes to dirty talk
dirty like the soiled and rotten earth, yes to come here, bitch
and suck it, bitch and you like that, bitch?"

"Nothing wanted
to be made real. because Nothing wasn’t enough of Anything
to be a Something. Nothing spoke no language."

"M’goi, Megwetch, Ashe, Amen"

"God damn God and His Creation’s violence
God damn God, who answers with silence"

"your heart is not a clenched fist your heart is not a bruised face"

"i lost my name to the river,
i lost my memory to dreams"

"salty, so bitter, and sweet
the way blood always tastes."