Preparing My Daughter For Rain Quotes

“When someone tells you that you're emotional, thank them. Thank them for recognizing the part in you that recognizes God.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Have you ever looked at your body without the lens of your colonized mind?”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“When he touches you like you are the last person he will ever touch. When he runs you through his fingers with every bit of tenderness he can flesh out of his bones. When he says your name like tidal waves and kisses you like a midnight in July. Hold him close, project your thanks to the heavens, and find what you’ve been waiting for in the closeness of your skin.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Ask your mother to tell you how much she loves you. Listen carefully to the truth in her voice.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“wishing my hair was longer and straighter, wishing my skin was lighter, wishing I was someone else, asking God to make me beautiful. These are things I beg my daughter not to inherit.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Touch all of your scars and remember their birthdays, remind yourself how far you’ve come.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“When I love,
the moon stops
in the middle of the sky
and my heart prepares the rest of
my body for
war.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“When I have a daughter I will tell her
You grew between the cracks of my skin,
I built you, 
cell by cell, 
over nine full moons,
a flower grown from blood.
Somewhere in your beautiful mind lives the distant memory, of loving only the sound of my voice and the slow hammer of my heart,
you trusted me before you knew me.
So if you ever question your capability to love fully, remember you have loved before, and you will love again”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Don't be concerned with other women's beauty. Only admire God's amazing work and wish them well., this earth was made to bite us in half and grind us to bone, but we were made to be kind.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Growing bitterness inside of you, will only turn you into a field of sadness.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“I pray that I can teach you that beauty is subjective;”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“And to My Own Mother, Heaven for me is at your feet.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“But eventually, we all must heal. Why does your nakedness offend you?
You were the inspiration for all of the earth,
every rolling hill and rushing stream.
Land so beautiful,
they couldn’t help but to steal it”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“the moon is crying she is missing her other half.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“I have forgotten,
after all of the heartbreak and bad decisions,
to thank my heart for not giving up.
To thank it for fighting for me,
because I know that it’s tired
so tired.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“You are the kind of beautiful that leaves craters in the moon,”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“I am a work in progress and I am learning that your hands have worn years of sacrifice, that your back has carried my burdens and yours, and that you have never tried to lessen that load. Without you, I wouldn’t have learned how to fight.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Your memory lives on me
like an old scar, in a place that only I know,
with a story that only I find beautiful.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Some men don't know what it means to stay.
They've watched their mothers
leave every morning,
and their fathers leave every night.
We think, maybe that's where they
learned their disappearing act.
But I know women who've lived
their entire lives in empty homes,
and the absence has taught them
something else.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“I knew that the danger would make
me fall in love with him.
I am a magnet for men with intentions
made of straw.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Why he’s committed to leaving but not committed to you. Ask him why you never feel like you can ask him these things? Why he gets to live weightless, while you live shoulder deep inside him.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“You were the inspiration for all of the earth, every rolling hill and rushing stream.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“You will have lovers who will love you with full passionate hearts.
Intact hearts and sound minds.
You will also have lovers who plunge into you, smashing their hearts against you like waves striking rocks.
They will break themselves open 
into pieces so small they will glitter in the sun.
You will have lovers who will love you by standing next to you,
and others who love you out of a pile of dust.
Remember, that either way,
you will be loved,
you are loved.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“I will lead an exodus with my lips, and soothe the hearts of my lovers with my tongue. I will never cry wolf, trust me.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“You grew between the cracks of my skin, I built you,  cell by cell,  over nine full moons, a flower grown from blood.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“Even if you gathered all of the oceans into your throat, and all of the light into your hair, there would still be women who have mastered the art of stealing stars out of the sky, and hiding them in their eyes.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain

“David slayed Goliath with a single stone. 
You crippled my heart with a single lie. This is the enormity of small things.”
― Key Ballah, Preparing My Daughter For Rain