Key Ballah Quotes

When I love,
the moon stops
in the middle of the sky
and my heart prepares the rest of
my body for
war.

And to My Own Mother, Heaven for me is at your feet.

the moon is crying she is missing her other half.

Touch all of your scars and remember their birthdays, remind yourself how far you've come.

You were the inspiration for all of the earth, every rolling hill and rushing stream.

Your memory lives on me
like an old scar, in a place that only I know,
with a story that only I find beautiful.

You grew between the cracks of my skin, I built you, cell by cell, over nine full moons, a flower grown from blood.

If you do not feel comfortable somewhere, leave.
It is not rude,
you are not wrong.
There is no such thing as manners when
your gut is telling you to get out!
I wish my mother had taught me this,
I would have seen so much more of the world by now.

Some men don't know what it means to stay.
They've watched their mothers
leave every morning,
and their fathers leave every night.
We think, maybe that's where they
learned their disappearing act.
But I know women who've lived
their entire lives in empty homes,
and the absence has taught them
something else.

Ask your mother to tell you how much she loves you. Listen carefully to the truth in her voice.

David slayed Goliath with a single stone.
You crippled my heart with a single lie.
This is the enormity of small things.

Don't be concerned with other women's beauty. Only admire God's amazing work and wish them well., this earth was made to bite us in half and grind us to bone, but we were made to be kind.

After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman.