"The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I’m learning them again"
- heart of the matter
"So wait… Is he like smart like border-line asperger’s?"
- Mama Sexballs
"He’s an only child, so he doesn’t know what incest feels like… But now he’s going to!"
- RodKyle Paras
“…from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.”
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.”
"To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved."
- Bell Hooks
master’s tools
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.
As bad as it is
In a way, I think
And miss
please do not mistake my happiness with forgetfulness
it does not necessarily mean that just because i can smile now,
i have forgotten what happened to me, and what great fear i’ve caused
on people, and on my loved ones.
it does not necessarily mean that just because i can laugh now,
i have forgotten what i have done to myself, and the doubts i have instilled
on people, and my family.
i carry around memories of what could have been and what should have been,
but i can find peace in darkness now. and i can find love, in broken-ness.
so please do not mistake my happiness with forgetfulness,
because i never forgot and never will.
i simply, am giving myself, the chance i deserve—
to say and recognize—
that despite everything,
i have the right to love myself and smile.
eatsleepdraw: zombie king
