“look What I Can Do!”

(You’ve chosen to not remember this part.)

When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.

Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

the music will always save me

living in a constant haze, walking through the world as if nothing was real

will i always be this angry?

Learning so much about myself as I sit in the discomfort of my past

My whole life someone told me to be a weapon, when all I wanted was to weep.

— Azura Tyabji & Jackson Neal, from “Black Fire Ballad (I Feel Most Evil in My Mother’s Gowns),” Teen Titans, Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

“Most persecutors are just misguided protectors” I’m going to bite you