“when you are here everything is wild. - moon” StarsMoonAstronomySaltNayyirah Waheed Book:Salt Source: Salt
“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.” SocietySaltBlack WomenBlacknessUnlovedUnlovableBlack LoveBlack VulnerabilityExepectations Book:Salt Source: Salt
“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” RootsSaltBlack WomenRepressionStereotypesBlacknessAncestorsAfricansNayyirah Waheed Book:Salt Source: Salt