Stories of a Polished Pistil Quotes

“It is strange to both fit in everywhere and belong nowhere, to never feel completely at home outside of your own skin”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved

“I spoke to him in poetry
And instead of mocking a tongue he couldn’t understand
he took time to learn my language”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved

“I fell asleep with your head on my breast
My soul laying gracefully on your stable and loving chest”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved

“Unearthing fragile or broken parts of one’s past is not denying the nourishment that too existed
It is not denying the beauty nor the countless blessings that were also given...”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved

“...the prepared meal is far more appetizing that its raw beginnings
there’s a lot of fight that goes into the happy ending”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved

“Protect your time
Protect your space and grow beautiful things there
Forbid any ungrateful, thoughtless and/or unworthy toes from trampling through your garden”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved

“Unearthing fragile or broken parts of one’s past
Is not denying the nourishment that too existed
It is not denying the beauty nor the countless blessings that were also given
It is simply tilling, raking, and pulling up what is dead so that it will not spread.
It is making room for more light, more love, more blessings…”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Unpaved