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“...you will not live to see a just world. But you will live to see acts of justice.”
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“I felt I’d disappointed my parents. And my church. And my whole race, actually. Isn’t that the prevailing narrative for people in oppressed groups of all kinds: your ancestors suffered so you could achieve, so you better achieve. Rosa Parks didn’t sit on that bus for me to go to New York and turn gay.”
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“The books that I found in the library, ones that I deeply understood and ones that seemed so outside of my experience they might as well have been written in Klingon, all carried the same hopes: to be seen, to be heard, to exist.”
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“That's, really, the reason memes exist at all. Memes are open-source joke structure. A meme shows you how the joke works and then invites you to fill in your own details.”
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“I didn't know if the beginning of my story was in a promising private school and a yearbook full of hope and my ending was in here, in this ruined space, letting it all go. But I was determined to accept it, perhaps debate it, and then move on to a new story. I did want things. I wanted to express myself, I wanted to get out of my dead-end job, I wanted to feel loved, I wanted to love myself. I wanted to know that this what not the end. I couldn't start a new story until I gave words to the "why?" of it, even if it hurt, even if it felt too messy, even if it wasn't the story I set out to tell. It was my story and it was all I had. I dusted myself off and left the basement.”
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“I understood that a book could be many things at once, without conflict or contradiction, long before i realized it about people.”
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