59 Quotes by Valentine Okolo

On this dayinnocence was drowned in water,and puberty terminated by the blade of the guillotine.

How long would we continueto hear in the news our tomorrows silenced like the lives of flies?

In genocides rape is most times weaponized by the aggressive side, and the suffering sides to such wickedness are women, old and young. Such actions tear at my core and reveal mankind’s depravity at its worst.

What is Raven from my perspective? I believe it is the collective consciousness of the suffering masses melding into one voice. I believe it is conscience personified. Perhaps, a messenger with a message. Or even, the depths of my consciousness rising to the surface. Whatever it is, “Raven” started me on a quest. And I have been on this journey for quite some time.

Each time a child goes up as an incendiary, something within me rips open. Until a day of reckoning comes I don’t think I will ever get over the self-immolation of each of those children. And my words are inadequate to show the depth of my grief or my anger. Nothing can. Only my deliberations with silence.

PortraitTruebeauty is hiddenin the fringesof softness.Something which summons youto experiencebut not to possess.

OneWe are pulledto each otherlike paper clips into the embrace of magnetized ironlike a lightning rod hailing the finger of thunder,and we can't say why.

KissTwin lips,surrounded by white light.The breath from my mouthmake you quiverlike a jellyfish,marooned on the water shore.

Black GirlYourskin is dark chocolatedipped in honey.You area delicious shade of melanin.