61 Quotes by Ezinne Orjiako

And so you travel.Forgetting that the problem is you.And where ever you go, you carry yourself.

My love says I am not a fool but I will play dumb for you. He tells me sweet nothings and calls only on the weekends. On Mondays I find our love in a bottle. On Tuesdays it clouds a Joint. He texts to confirm plans.Tells me to shave downstairs for next time.And I listen. Because I am young. Naïve.A little bit desperate and kind of hungry.There is this way he almost loves me.It's never enough but I always stay.

So this is your story:You search for love not knowing you are made of it already. That you are worthy as you are. Girls like you spend so much time silencing themselves. Hiding pain behind cosmetics. Wrapping bellies inside corsets. Trying to be less intimidating because all the wrong ones are intimidated. The world tells you don’t dream then it asks why you are not dreaming enough.

Loving a black man feels like chewing glass. Drinking air. Fighting blood.

Do not leave your life to chance. Live your life on purpose.

Everything new is an opportunity to reach for more. To find the self; to meet God.

Since you’ve been gone Nkem, I am not so sure what hardens me more. The days I spend wondering if my name and our shared memories still rummage through the quiet parts of your wonderful mind. Or the nights I must now waste imprisoned to this bed without you.

Anyone causing you pain is hurting themselves.

My feet only ever fail me when it comes time to walk away from you.