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Salt QUOTES

Salt QUOTES

1 " the worst
thing that ever happened
to
the world
was
the white man coming across gun powder.
–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy "

― , Salt

2 " there is no healthier drug than creativity. "

― , Salt

3 " i touched her in the middle of her heart.
i never saw her again.

–– scar "

― , Salt

4 " black women breathe flowers, too.
just because
we are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret)
does nor mean
we do not swelter with wild tenderness.
we soft swim.
we petal.
we scent limbs.
love.
we just have been too long a garden for sharp and deadly teeth.
so we
have
grown
ourselfves
into
greenhouses. "

― , Salt

5 " do
not ever
be
afraid to tell me
who you are.
i am going to find
out
eventually.

–– blunt "

― , Salt

6 " african american women are easy. inferior.
africans are dirty. jungle people.
african americans are lazy. indolent.
african people are too black. ugly.
african americans think they are better than us.
africans think they are better us.


–– listen to the sound of us | we are breaking our mothers heart | the ancestors
weep at how much we look like the hate that came to eat us "

― , Salt

7 " when you are
here
everything
is
wild.
- moon "

― , Salt

8 " have you ever
heard
a black woman weep over her skinmurdered child.
it is the splitting of atoms.
it is billions
of
voices screaming their children’s names
through
her death wail.

–– trayvon martin ii "

― , Salt

9 " you can not
remain
a
war
between
what you want to say (who you really are)
and
what you should say (who you pretend to be)
you mouth was not designed to eat itself.

–– split "

― , Salt

10 " white people are not chinese
because they are born/live in china
white people are not indian.
because they are born/live in india.
white people are not african.
because they are born/live on a continent they murdered their way into.

- there is no such things as white african | colonial blood myths | a revisionist history "

― , Salt

11 " she was a beautiful place to bare my legs. "

― , Salt

12 " i do not want to be liked.
i want to be myself.

–– fiction "

― , Salt

13 " i am relieved.
when
i see the feminine presence
in a man’s eyes.
it means
he is a peace
i do not
have
to
bring to him.

–– ease "

― , Salt

14 " i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning. "

― , Salt

15 " i bleed every month. but do not die. how am i not magic. – the lie "

― , Salt

16 " where you are. is not who you are. – circumstances "

― , Salt

17 " you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant "

― , Salt

18 " in our own ways we all break. it is okay to hold your heart outside of your body for days. months. years. at a time. – heal "

― , Salt

19 " both. i want to stay. i want to leave. i am three oceans away from my soul. – lost "

― , Salt

20 " i have always been the woman of my dreams. "

― , Salt