Break Free?

Bondage is against the laws of Nature, and wars against the essence of women.

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1.19.16

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression." - Toni Morrison, author, "Kindred"

ESTEEM

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right ―  that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. 

Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.” 

― Toni Morrison, author

Dark fire of a Black woman 7

Danielle 2

dark beautiful Audrey 

Against the sin of the Idea of SIN

“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow―  it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.” 

― Shakti Gawain



“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”

― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993