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  • #1
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

  • #2
    D.H. Lawrence
    “Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great
    that you can see it in the slow movement of
    the hands of a clock.

    people so tired
    mutilated
    either by love or no love.

    people just are not good to each other
    one on one.

    the rich are not good to the rich
    the poor are not good to the poor.

    we are afraid.

    our educational system tells us
    that we can all be
    big-ass winners.

    it hasn't told us
    about the gutters
    or the suicides.

    or the terror of one person
    aching in one place
    alone

    untouched
    unspoken to

    watering a plant.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #4
    James Baldwin
    “ANY REAL CHANGE IMPLIES THE breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or thought one knew; to what one possessed or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free—he has set himself free—for higher dreams, for greater privileges. All men have gone through this, go through it, each according to his degree, throughout their lives. It is one of the irreducible facts of life. And remembering this, especially since I am a Negro, affords me almost my only means of understanding what is happening in the minds and hearts of white Southerners today.”
    James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

  • #5
    E.E. Cummings
    If

    "If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
    And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
    Life would be delight,--
    But things couldn't go right
    For in such a sad plight
    I wouldn't be I.

    If earth was heaven and now was hence,
    And past was present, and false was true,
    There might be some sense
    But I'd be in suspense
    For on such a pretense
    You wouldn't be you.

    If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
    And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
    Things would seem fair,--
    Yet they'd all despair,
    For if here was there
    We wouldn't be we.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #6
    Bernardine Evaristo
    “it’s important to counterbalance the state of being cerebral with the state of being corporeal”
    Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

  • #7
    Bernardine Evaristo
    “Thereafter she saw his intellectual showmanship as a performance, deep down he could be as vulnerable as anyone”
    Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #10
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #11
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    Anthony G. Oettinger



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