Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Anger can give us the mettle to speak with courage and conviction, but also the venom that blinds us to the views of others. 

White supremacy culture’s number one strategy is to make us afraid. When we are afraid, we lose touch with our power and are more easily manipulated by any promise of safety, even as we come to slowly learn that safety dependent on violence is not safe at all. 

It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. 

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.

Anyone can slay a dragon but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That’s what takes a real hero.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.