“Some people talk about their PTSD as if it's a badge of honor, and I roll my fucking eyes. I'm not trying to be the PDST-esy of them all. I ignored it for a really long time. I overdosed at seventeen. I had no home for a little while. Every night I have nightmares. It's gonna end my marriage, too. I want it to end. He can't stomach my suffering and hates that he can't help me and doesn't want to do what will actually end this era. I think he loves me too much to see me in pain, and the pain he does see reminds him of his own, which is just as fucked as mine. Why can't just fucking let me cry? When the men came over, they would drug me, and I still crave those drugs to this day. Every man I look at either reminds me if those men or they don't. All men are mirrors. Whether they want to be or not. I think about those men all the time. (117)”
Source: The Lookback Window
“Forgiveness is not a panacea. It does not make trauma disappear, nor does it heal all emotional wounds.”
Source: You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms
“The Crazy Mother’s Guide To Raising Exceptional Children Is For All Parents Who Have Days When They Want To Run Away And Join The Circus.
– Sonia D. Hebdon”
Source: The Crazy Mother's Guide To Raising Exceptional Children: An Aussie Mum's First Hand Experience Parenting Children Who Have Autism Spectrum Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
“I am not angry or ashamed about the traumas I've endured, at this point, I couldn't imagine myself without them. I wouldn't erase them from my past because they are my greatest source of strength.”
“What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.”
Source: Another Day From the World of Ro and Mo
“To all the therapists, psychologists, all the way to the appointment setters; thank you giving your time and energy to help.
Even if you don't have it all together, you show up. I only got to this point where I could write about my recovery because of you.
Thank you for the gift of life!”
Source: THE MAP : A Lived Guide to Recovery
“Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.”
Source: Soulless
“Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.”
Source: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
“I don't like the way our community throws the word around like it's water, because it's a derogatory term. A lot of times people come up to me and say, "What's up my nigger?" I'll respond, "Nah, wait a minute. What?" "Oh, oh, what's up my brother?" Sometimes you have to check people, because if it gets loose with us then white people will start to use it. I know a bunch of white people that started to get lax so I had to check them. Some black people were afraid to check them because they thought it was cool. You can never turn that word around and make it cool Nigger is just derogatory, it's wrong, and it's a fucked up term. It's not a word of love, Yo, what's up my nigger?" Fuck that. You can't turn the word puss around. Go around and say, "What's up pussy" to a brother. He'll try to kill you. "What's up dickhead?" You can't turn that around, so you can't turn nigger around as hard as you try.”
Source: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1
“This is one of many expressions which, colourless and even meaningless at first, have been developed into recognized terms of abuse by sloppy writers, prejudiced thinkers and powerful evangelists. The ordinary reasonable man has been trained to shudder away from a 'reactionary' as he does from a 'vested interest', though he may have no clear notion of the nature of either.
"What is a Reactionary?”
Source: More Uncommon Law