Rudy K. Francisco is an American spoken word poet and author born on July 27, 1982, in San Diego, California. Rudy finished his B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Organizational Studies. His 0work as an artist combines societal criticism, reflection, honesty, and comedy. He highlights and emphasizes the interconnectedness of human existence while using personal narratives to examine the politics of race, class, gender, and religion.
He aspires to produce art encouraging constructive debate, discourse, and societal change. He has tried to foster budding poets and introduce youngsters to the spoken word poetry genre through coaching, workshops, and performances at community centres.
1. “Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying they’ll tell us that we make sense?”
To feel secure about oneself as a person, this quotation talks about how people seek out other people’s acceptance and wait for others to think they are good enough.
2. “I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
As loving oneself is the best present one can give themselves, the saying encourages people to love themselves without expecting anything in return. You can do it because you are Capable and sufficient in yourself, and it’s time to start believing in the power of YOU.
3. “I hate you, but I still miss you, and a part of me still loves you.”
In this quote, Letting go is defined as accepting the hurt but refusing to let it define your entire relationship. Sometimes, you can love someone and still keep your distance from them.
Additionally, it entails holding them in your heart forever and moving forward in life-based solely on how you feel about them rather than having them by your side.
4. “I take my compliments the same way I take my coffee. I don’t drink coffee.”
According to the quotation, I am unaffected by other people’s opinions. It indicates that I am self-assured enough in my abilities and do not negatively react to compliments that could hinder my personal development.
5. “Let’s vow never to become the monsters we are trying to protect ourselves from.”
The quote refers to a person’s character, defined as having excellent values, being honest, helpful, or being a decent person. The concept of treating people how you want to be treated is discussed in it. This merely denotes acts of kindness that go above and beyond that. Aim to treat others like you would like to be treated. Imagine how you want people to think of you when you’re around them, talking to people the way you want to be talked to.
6. “I’m learning that everything doesn’t always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.”
In this quote, Rudy is attempting to make the point that not everything we give will be returned to us in the same way, just as not everyone is built to receive love but only to give it. Additionally, Rudy emphasizes how easy it is to give but tough it is to receive. He’s attempting to get over the idea that love is not like a boomerang; you can’t just throw and hope it comes back to you.
7. “I stopped looking for someone to love me. I became that person instead.”
According to this quote, I am enough for myself and don’t need someone to love me. It means that loving yourself allows you to be who you are without changing who you are for anyone, making you happy and giving you a sense of strength. The most crucial thing we can do for ourselves is to learn to appreciate who we are because it is essential to living a happy, independent life.
8. “Maybe, I told you, I was leaving Because it was The only way you’d notice my absence.”
According to this quote, the other person will only realize your value when they sense that you will leave. They will only value your presence when they sense your absence. They won’t miss you until you are gone, and they won’t remember you until you.
Forget about them. They won’t want you until you don’t want them, which means they will understand your importance because being absent makes a person value their partner and the relationship more.
9. “Maybe this whole time, I already had the things I’ve been asking others to give me.”
Humans often expect other people to give us what we already have. This quote shows how everyone is self-sufficient and does not require anyone else’s approval. It also helps us to realize that we are enough on our own and do not require the approval of others.
10. “Sometimes I’m the mess. Sometimes I’m the broom. On the most challenging days, I have to be both.”
The various states that a person goes through in life are described in this quote. Sometimes a person is in the wrong place, whether emotionally or physically, and feels like a mess, but other times the person is the broom who sweeps up and maintains himself. In the final sentence, it is stated that, despite these conditions, there are days when one must have the strength to handle every circumstance and act as both the mess “maker and its cleaner, sweeping it up like a broom.
11. “Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely that when others see us. They know precisely how it should be done.”
Being loved is beautiful, but loving yourself is the best feeling. Rudy wants to convey through this quote that one should love oneself so fiercely that others see and learn from them to accept and love oneself without needing anyone else to love us and make us feel valuable. One can practice self-love by choosing themselves again and again, among others.
12. “You laughed like a metaphor I’ve been trying to write down for years.”
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility. Rudy is using a figure of speech known as a metaphor in this quote, which describes an object or action in a way that isn’t true but helps an idea or makes a comparison. For example, the quote claims that the lover’s laughter is something that cannot be put into words and can only be felt by the lover because it is the best feeling to see the person you love happy and content.
13. “Be with the one who makes you forget how terrified you are of falling in love.”
According to this quote, we should be in a relationship with someone who makes the other person feel secure and not afraid of what might happen if they get hurt. Love is a feeling that should make the other person feel comfortable since feeling safe is the ultimate goal of every successful relationship. The relationship should make you feel safe, happy, and loved instead of stressed and frightened.
14. “Being black is one of the most extreme sports in America. We don’t need to invent new ways of risking our lives because the old ones have been working for decades.”
Being black in America is like competing in a race where the finish line is continually moving, according to this saying regarding the racism that exists worldwide, especially in America. It describes the difficulties that Black people experience, the discrimination they encounter in various settings, and how they are required to abide by laws everywhere, they go since they are viewed as less than White people.
15. “Trust is jumping into someone’s arm and knowing you won’t have to pick yourself up when it’s over.”
This quote discusses the need for trust in relationships, comparing a lack of trust to a car without gas in that it cannot proceed. Trust must be present in all types of relations to feel comfortable as an individual and in a relationship. Building a solid relationship and making it endure for a lifetime is impossible without it. Being trusted is also a higher compliment than being loved.
16. “The most destructive instruments can still create a melody worth dancing to.”
According to this phrase, we should never lose faith in ourselves, even if we are a little broken, because the broken instrument will continue to play and give music to us to dance to. It claims that when you choose hope, anything is possible, just as broken crayons continue to produce the same colours, and that hope makes all things possible, including the impossibility of making something happen.
17. “Faith is doing what you love for a living and watching the bills pay themselves.”
This saying encourages us to believe in ourselves and follow our passions because doing so will lead to freedom and happiness. When you are doing what you love, you are not stressed because you enjoy what you are doing, and when you enjoy what you have, you have everything. If you work without love, you are a slave; if you work with love, you are an emperor; your work becomes your delight and source of happiness.
18. “You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.”
It is important to open your heart to love, but its much more important not to fall for someone who can,t love you back. Remember love is not to be begged , it is to be shared.
19. “I love you in a language that I don’t fully understand. In words that I haven’t found enough courage to forklift out of my chest.”
Loving someone is the best feeling in the world. And the feeling can’t be expressed in words.
20. “Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at.”
Loving someone is the best feeling, You want to see them sleeping soundly by your side when you awaken early in the morning. You want to cheer them up, see a smile on their face, and make them smile. You picture yourself accompanying them on long journeys in the future with your children, singing love songs, eating sandwiches, and joking and laughing the entire time. When it rains, you want to sit next to each other in the grass beneath a shed, smelling the dirt and gazing up at an unusually dark sky while drinking hot tea and reminiscing. As you near the destination, you picture them getting older and more wrinkly yet still by your side and tightly gripping your hands.
21. “Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they’ll tell us that we make sense?”
There are times when you know you and your partner want different things in life and from the relationship even. But what we expect is the acceptance from them.
22. “I’m learning that everything doesn’t always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.”
The truth is sometimes people just don’t love you as much as you love them, and no amount of extra love and effort from your end cant change that.