Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quotes

#1. I realize how much I have wanted this and not gotten it [good love], realize how much it is branded in my heart that, to be happy, alone, and childless is a fucking gift that most women get brainwashed into relinquishing.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#2. I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#3. And somewhere in that sweaty brown hot box of brown gay, I found myself.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#4. I said I loved her. That was when all the problems started

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#5. We're sistas. We treat each other like sistas. That's the blessin'. That's the problem. We come together cause we're both bein' fucked over by the same people. We get close. And then we fall in love with each other cause us third world diva gals are beautiful and blessed like none other.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#6. The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#7. Do more than:Stop self-destructing. Save each other. Not have a nervous breakdown or six by twenty five. Decolonize our minds, our hair, our hearts. Transform into the phoenixes we were all meant to be.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha