Audre Lorde, “From the House of Yemanjá”, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Ada Limón, from “Banished Wonders”, The Hurting Kind

if you're a boy and your name starts with j you're not allowed to speak

February newsletter

LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS

Ocean Vuong, from “Skinny Dipping”, Time Is a Mother

When you become 20 something, you have to forgive yourself or you will never grow up. You have to forgive yourself for everything and learn from it.

if i was a star and you were a star i would wink at you and blink at you and twinkle at you and the earthlings would call it science

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra