This is just a post about ten of my favourite quotes and why I love them. The first quote is by none other than one of my favourite poets, W.H. Auden: "A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." This quote is just amazing. Auden compares a lack of knowledge to being [...]
We fail to realise our own greatness because for ourselves we generate mental barriers through attempts to emulate the external. In our pursuit of happiness (as individuals) we observe the multitude: We are left unsatisfied by our satisfactory attempts to become who we are not. We reach for the ungraspable, the unattainable, the unreachable, thus [...]
It is an excuse to abandon all rationality, To reduce ourselves to primitive responses in the face of confrontation. Perhaps our instincts are all we can trust. That lust, desire, hunger, fatigue are what dominate us in the same way that violence does. Or is it just the need to rule over others [...]
They live. But we survive. We hang on to the little intricate threads that have been woven into the fabric of our realities hoping that our distant dream will become reality. We hang on with all our strength and strive to gain wisdom so that one day we may live. They live. But we survive. [...]
Beauty lies in resilience. The moment you give up is the moment the world calms down. And it feels great to not have that pressure but I promise you that's not what you want. Tell the world to scream your name. Let Satan's propaganda against your name reign. Let people hurt you and just thrive [...]
Painted by Luiz Anderson I am what I am. I am who I am. You can hate me for what I am; You can hate me for who I am But that won't change the fact that I am what I am and I am who I am: I am a black woman. My thick [...]
"For reasons unknown" I've decided to start a blog. Well that's not entirely true. After several heated conversations on social media about serious issues examples being intersectional feminism and the long-lasting effects of colonisation and slavery on the black community, I realised that there was a lot of people who were just ignorant as well [...]
Your body is all you have so cherish it Is it? Well a face value analysis of this statement and the consideration of nothing more would lead me to entirely disagree with the statement. I say that because I have family and friends. Aside from people we have establishments like schools, banks, churches and [...]
This is a short story I wrote. Please don't hesitate to leave any feedback. Painting by Luiz Anderson I’m accustomed to forging walls around my true feelings and smiling through pain that the idea of actually discussing pain had become alien to me. It’s just so much easier to pretend. As he scrutinized every single bruise and scar [...]
Let’s first of establish that the concept of “the crowd” is abstract. There isn’t always a physical crowd around each and every one of us causing us to behave in a specific way. Although schools are probably the worst place for it. Continuously, I see posts on social media about self-love and acceptance and being [...]
