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Warsan Shire, from “Backwards”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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— Clarice Lispector, from Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem

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“We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.”

— T.D. Jakes

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I really need to free my mind

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— Apprehensions, Sylvia Plath

[text ID: Is there no way out of the mind?]

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Fernando Pessoa // Michel Foucault

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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “What I couldn’t explain via text”

[Text ID: “I still don’t know how / to love someone / without swallowing them.”]

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Brown

and beautiful

Hair like the shape of a tree

Golden skin

That lightens up

Every room

I see

Strong

Independent

Intelligence

When I glare into

The mirror

And play hide and seek

I love this

Beautiful

Brown

Skin

I was blessed with

My cocoa butter

Skin

And my coconut

Curls

That twirl in the wind

I love the skin I’m

In

Deeper with myself

I have became

Because I have the words

Of a Queen

And a face of

A goddess

And a brain

Of a warrior

I’m the black sheep

Brown girl

They can’t break me

They can’t shake me

I’m brown

I’m proud

And I’m

Beautiful

-Ashari Bird

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“I hope one day we can forgive each other for not being what we wanted each other to be”

— Kriti G.

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– Susan Sontag

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“I’m not scared of loving, I’m scared of losing myself all over again”

— Unknown

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Thinking about the bad memories

Thinking about the time

I lost a part of me

Where I almost lost my sanity

You stole something

So precious from me

You stole my childhood memories

In the neighborhood of

My old elementary school

Where I used to swing on

The swings

With no worry in my heart

Where I was free

Free of pain

I remember running around

Everyday not knowing

I had to run away from

My thoughts

I was lost in the wind

Never knowing

Life would end up like this

I never thought I would

Lose my mind

In a place I once called home

It changed me forever

I’m not in my right mind

Hoping you get karma

And won’t stay alive

I never wish

Death on anybody

But you killed a part of me

That I can never get back

I laid there

Wondering when it would

Stop

Wondering how I could

Be down the street

From my grandparents

As you deceived me

I wanted to run home

But I didn’t want

The to know

I didn’t wanna break their heart

Telling them I fell apart

Explain what just happened

And how I feel alone

Explained that my body

Was taken from me

And I will never

Call this place home

-Ashari Bird