Storyteller Quotes

“The sun is still shining,
the wind is still blowing,
and out in the wild
you are growing.
Days may go by
without change
you can feel,
but what's happening here
is most certainly real:
You are becoming
what you were meant
to become
out in the wild
in the arms of the sun.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“Maybe if you had been different,
you would have been what they wanted.
But maybe if you have been what they wanted,
you would have been different
than who you were supposed to be.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“Do not just wait to be invited to something. Create something. Contribute something. Make something. Do something.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“Take deep breaths often.
You are going
to be okay.
The desert valley
has a river
for wellness
in the wait:
water living,
moving,
keeping the hearts that hunt
for better days.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“In her lowest place she found the grace, the strength, the courage, the room, the space to move and live and breathe again.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“More than she was known for her accomplishments, she was known for the way she loved. Morgan Harper Nichols”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“But even though uncertain things have flooded your mind, peace is not the fleeting kind. It never leaves on days like this. It sticks around on days like this reminding you there is more than this.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“There is more to you than yesterday.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“The year is leaving you again, and the stack of things you did not do are piling up again. But remember tonight in the silhouette of power lines, that even though the sun is slipping from the sky there is still time, plenty of time to run, to hope, in the middle of the night, to wake in the morning to all-new light. My dear, oh my dear, there is still time, plenty of time to live.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“The world may be a crowded place, but there is still room for you, room for you to tell your story and to create things and contribute things that make a difference. Your age does not matter. Where you were raised does not matter. You are on this earth for a reason. You are not just taking up space. There will be no perfect moment before you take the leap and speak.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“There is beauty and truth even in the seemingly mundane.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“For The One: You are the reason I am still breathing, though I am feeling torn apart. You are the Hallelujah beating through my broken, weary heart. Morgan Harper Nichols”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“For the forgotten: They can take a lot of things, but they cannot take your hope. They cannot take the freedom stirring deep within your soul. Morgan Harper Nichols”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“There will be no perfect moment before you take the leap and speak.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“Writing is a chance to speak to those who don’t feel spoken to, and put into words what the readers thought they were alone in thinking about.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide. Morgan Harper Nichols”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters