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“I don’t know if I’ll ever be okay…but I’ll be.”

Honesty Being Real Deep Thoughts Truthfulness Admission Being Ok

Book:Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“You’re lonely,” they say, but it doesn’t scare me anymore for it teaches me, and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years: I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would. I don’t break mirrors anymore, like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself, and I never thought I would.”

Source: You're Doing Just Fine

“Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone.”

Poetry Poem Solitude Being Ok Being Fine

Book:I'll Fly Away

Source: I'll Fly Away

“Through it all, the mourning doves say There, there--which is to say, everything is all right. I believe them. They have said this to me ever since childhood. I hear them. I hear them and I get up.”

Poetry Belief Poem Calm Birds Being Ok Being All Right Mourning Doves Everything Will Be Ok

Book:Not Go Away Is My Name

Source: Not Go Away Is My Name

“No. I was not okay. And neither was James Baldwin though his essays Were perfect spinning platters of comprehension of the fight To assert humanness in a black and white world.”

Poetry Race Poem African Americans Essays Blacks Race Relations James Baldwin Being Ok

Book:An American Sunrise

Source: An American Sunrise

“I never lied on how much I loved you, or needed you, or missed you. I only lie about me being OK.”

Missed You How Much Being Ok Loved You Needed You Never Lied

Author:Jeffrey Fry