15 Quotes by Ayokunle Falomo

Today, we'll celebrate Independence Day using the backdrop of the sky as a canvas, the fireworks thrown against it bearing semblance to the drips from the hands of Jackson Pollock but we'll forget that here, in America there are still some who are not free.

I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined in a most holy matrimony with the dirt I am.

Take his hands, take her hands and dance! There's a wide and free world calling on you to make it your dance floor.

Child, love. Live! Love! Love! Live! Love all the parts of you you'll be tempted to hate. Live the life of your dreams.

Daughter, be a butterfly. Your father has always had an odd fascination with them. Or rather, be what you dream to be!

Let your heart race. Let it run wild and free. Let it burst out with sounds of liberty, of gratefulness for being alive at this moment for this moment is all we have.

When they gaze in confusionat the broken, odd shaped, colorful shards of glass that we are, let them know that we too belong here, herein this gallery. Masterpieces, we are nothere by accident but have been carefully assembled and put together and are held together in this ceramic panel - our bodies of clay -by good intentions. We too are works of art.

I know my fickle heart still beats because of my mother's heartbeat.

Nothing else has given me the chance to contemplate life the way walking has.