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“Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. You may…

— Maya Angelou

“Welcome the small cracking of your hard-clodded shell, Embrace the warm sting of tears, Kiss the shadow which frightens you awake as you turn…

— Jacob Nordby

“I’m not the flowering of a song, nor the flow of melody I am the echo of the shattering sound of my defeat”

— Rabisankar Bal

“When the moon is full, and I've cried; I'll take up your guts, to the little shed outside. I'll shuck all the light from…

— Meghan James

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

— Mos Def

“The tips of my overgrown bangs dip into the wet of my tears. My fingers, forehead, moisten with sweat. I fight the slipperiness, press…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Oh, you know I'm only human; I bend and fall and break You cut me and I bleed I'm a mess for you to…

— Emery Lord

“It was like a song, one of those sweet, wrenching songs that makes the hair on your arms stand up. That makes you want…

— L.J. Smith

“You’re my responsibility more than you know. More than I knew when I walked into the New Moon less than a week ago. One…

— Denise Grover Swank

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will break my soul.”

— Kathryn Lopez

“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud Madden me back to an afternoon I carry in me not like a wound but like…

— Christian Wiman