thread, this wordweaver must! Quotes

“Don't be afraid to let your heart beat strong and loud in a room full of silence. Your heart beats for a reason, woman!”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“It takes as much time to build walls sturdy enough for wallflowers like you and me to lean against as it does for us to bloom.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“I'm learning to let go of my shields, to take the armors off (they are too heavy anyways) and march unguarded, if ever the need arises, towards the battlefield in defense of love.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“When they gaze in confusion
at the broken, odd shaped, colorful
shards of glass that we are,

let them know

that we too belong here, here
in this gallery. Masterpieces,
we are not

here by accident

but have been carefully assembled
and put together and are held together
in this ceramic panel - our bodies of clay -
by good intentions.

We too are works of art.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Today, we'll celebrate Independence Day using the backdrop of the sky as a canvas, the fireworks thrown against it bearing semblance to the drips from the hands of Jackson Pollock but we'll forget that here, in America there are still some who are not free.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Nothing else has given me the chance to contemplate life the way walking has.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Let your heart race. Let it run wild and free. Let it burst out with sounds of liberty, of gratefulness for being alive at this moment for this moment is all we have.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined in a most holy matrimony with the dirt I am.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Take his hands, take her hands and dance! There's a wide and free world calling on you to make it your dance floor.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“I know my fickle heart still beats because of my mother's heartbeat.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Nothing else has given me a chance to contemplate life the way walking has.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Daughter, be a butterfly. Your father has always had an odd fascination with them. Or rather, be what you dream to be!”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Child, love. Live! Love! Love! Live! Love all the parts of you you'll be tempted to hate. Live the life of your dreams.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!