“I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.”
-ASSATA SHAKUR
Tag: quotes
“What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.”
-Maya Angelou
“l am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”
-AUDRE LORDE
“Sis, take good care of this version of you. You’ve worked so hard to become her.”
–Nakeia Homer
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”
–Lucille Ball
“Cause I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.”
-Alicia Keys
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
-Walter Winchell
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
–Charles Bukowski
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.”
-bell hooks
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”
-bell hooks