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“It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”
― André Breton

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
― bell hooks

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
― Huey P. Newton

“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Ugly is political.

It is the determiner for who does and does not work;

who does and does not Love;

who does and does not die;

who does and does not eat.”
― Da'Shaun L. Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

“If the caged bird is the Beast, trapped and taunted by the idea of freedom, then like it, the Black fat sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still; we sit on graves of dreams not yet seen. In those dreams, which may never resurrect, there's a place--not the World--where we live and breathe as beings not bound by identifiers and qualifiers predicated on anti-Blackness. Where we are not Black or white, not thin or fat, not cis or trans, not queer or straight, not bound or unbound. In that place, the caged bird is not freed from its cage; in that place, the cage never existed for the bird to ever be bound by.”
― Da'Shaun L. Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

“And I understood that if I kept it all up...

no one would know me.

A dim light far in the distance? No.

To love -- I had to be there.

I had to be there to be loved.”
― Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

“it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“No one will ever know about your tragedy, and the world eluded its responsibility ages ago.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“The power to construct oneself is destiny”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“But some desires, once formed, are impossible to fulfil, so they become frustrations instead.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“I didn't want to be alone, I was afraid no one would want me.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

“And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
― Clarice Lispector

“I love to feel this bad because it reminds me of being human”
― Hera Lindsay Bird, Hera Lindsay Bird

“there is something wrong with you

there is something wrong with you that is also wrong with me”
― Hera Lindsay Bird, Hera Lindsay Bird