Author Archives: Jacqueline Ashby

There is a magic about you
that is all your own.

~D.M. Dellinger

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self. ~Iyanla Vanzant

“Jax!”
“What?”
“Come here! Your room made it on a gallery wall!”

#AngryOwls.

“Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
~Kahlil Gibran

(I stare into those chocolate almonds and I wonder when another like you will be born. I say this world needs more poets and fewer politicians. #PoetforPresident)

What you have been.

our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry.
women of colour – rupi kaur

Granted.

You are the finest,
loveliest, tenderest,
and most beautiful
person I have ever known-
and even that
is an understatement.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

do not choose the lesser life.
do you hear me.
do you hear me.
choose the life that is. yours.
the life that is seducing your lungs.
that is dripping down your chin.
(…and right now that would be creamy, smooth gelato…bahahaha!)
~ Nayyirah Waheed. Girl, you smoke my heart with your lyrical masterpieces.