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The thing that …
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. –Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted and Black (via Free Bird)
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An intimate rel…
An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function in a relationship. Two...
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I’m learning to…
I’m learning to dismiss the myth I once created that I am not worthy of love. It’s a myth I’ve discovered many Black woman have and my daily fight is to learn how to dismantle it. My queer livelihood...
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I know what it …
I know what it feels like, and it sucks, it really does, when you are up in the middle of the night thinking about the things that you’ve suddenly became aware of. The things you’re missing out on...
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Being exception…
Being exceptional isn’t revolutionary, it’s lonely. It separates you from your community. Who are you, really, without community? I have been held up consistently as a token, as the “right” kind of...
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When I get lone…
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another...
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list of things …
list of things we could do if you were here right now: cuddle make out fall asleep in each others’ arms make out more (via a mumbled heart song) #relevant
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Once you’ve rea…
Once you’ve realized that you’re living in a world that believes women are “less than” in every imaginable way, one of the things that can be most frustrating is that very few men get it. You want the...
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…fear has a w…
…fear has a way of sounding like Truth. Fear talks in a voice that soothes you, that tells you this won’t work, you can stop being vulnerable, you can find solace within that loneliness you know far...
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LatiNegra Sexologist, on rejection
So much to learn in the rejection. The first thing is to remember rejection is not always a sign that you are a failure or have failed. Rejection is about coming closer to what you need to build and...
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This feeling is what I miss about college.
We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life…it’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are...
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“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?” – Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (via Things I’ve Learned from Being Open)
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