4 Quotes by Junauda Petrus

I hearing Queenie’s words: “Let the pain leave out of you with each breath. It want to be free too,” she would say whenever I would get hurt, or if I was feeling sick. Even if I was sad, she would say these words, and through my tears and pain, I would find my center again.

Take your feelings and hold them with softness, but also with power. And whenever you feel afraid, know you can ask your fear about itself.

I look at my skin and it is glowing with constellations of ancestors. I ask them about escape and freedom and listen for revelation.

Mabel. Loving on you is prayer, like the prayers of bees is honey. We loved on each other like we always been. My fingers caressed your naps in this life. It placed oils. And we was infinite and knew how to love. On the scalp. Along the cornrow and on each other. These coilings was anoited like a real love. We was a cosmic conversation, before I even met you in this life.