the work

i don’t know who needs to hear this but you are worthy of respect even if you are mediocre. your writing will find a home, no matter how you feel about the sentence structure. your thoughts are important, even if they come out ineloquent. not every piece you create will be life altering; every artist, no matter how brilliant, has a skip in the... See more

toni morrison did not learn rhythm. it flowed through her like notes from a saxophone, booming and unmissable. so i must stop chasing her and remember that i was born with a rhythm of my own.

why do we let our own self-doubt poison our love affair with ourselves?