Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff.


Ava Dellaira

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remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

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i swallowed the syllables of your name
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i am awake and alive
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AVA
i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA.
no one needs love from you
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love yourself first, AVA.
i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA.
love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA.
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AVA.
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i've never been able to separat...
AVA.
and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.
AVA.
i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA
you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA.
do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their lo...
AVA.
i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA
you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA.
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and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer...
AVA.
i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA.
hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.
AVA.
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on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA.
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and you never stop falling.
AVA.
you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me.
AVA.
i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.
AVA.
we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA.
you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
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the...
AVA.
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we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA
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i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
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AVA.
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the falling apart
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the hurti...
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i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.
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AVA
i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA.
i feel everything.
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and to not feel
is to stop the sun.
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AVA DUVERNAY
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
AVA DUVERNAY
I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in l...
AVA DUVERNAY
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY
If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. Yo...
AVA DUVERNAY
Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
AVA RICHARDSON
The time is not always now for everything.
AVA RICHARDSON
Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the to...
AVA GARDNER
You usually find that this is the most romantic sex, because it starts out with long, luscious kisse...
DR AVA CADELL
When you know you're never going to see someone again, you want to leave her wanting you - and you'l...
DR AVA CADELL
There's a correlation between a woman's bottom lip and her vagina. Sucking gently on her lip will ma...
DR AVA CADELL