“Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs. Tell them to be proud of every bit of themselves— from their tiger stripes to the soft flesh of their thighs, whether there is a little of them or a lot, whether freckles cover their face or not, whether their curves are plentiful or slim, whether their hair is thick, curly, straight, long or short. Tell them how they inherited their ancestors, souls in their smiles, that their eyes carry countries that breathed life into history, that the swing of their hips does not determine their destiny. Tell them never to listen when bodies are critiqued. Tell them every woman’s body is beautiful because every woman’s soul is unique.” BeautySelf Love Book:The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom Source: The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
“Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than you yourself.” LoveSelf LoveEmpowerment Book:Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty Source: Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
“There is nothing convenient about freedom. It is born from battle cries and war, and blood, and death and people living for it and dying for it without ever getting it. Never let anyone tell you that it was easy for you to have the fire, the storms, the oceans of strength to speak your mind that you have today.” LightPoetryFireSelf LoveAwakened Soul Book:Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty Source: Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty