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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    James Baldwin
    “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
    ― James A. Baldwin
    tags: love
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    Toni Morrison
    “At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Audre Lorde
    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: acceptance, friendship
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    James Baldwin
    “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: freedom, liberty
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    John Steinbeck
    “Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: honesty
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    James Baldwin
    “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: love
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    James Baldwin
    “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: art, expression, james-baldwin, nausea, survival, vomit
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    Alice Walker
    “Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
    ― Alice Walker
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    James Baldwin
    “It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: education, freedom-of-thought
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles, and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling
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    Isabel Allende
    “Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
    ― Isabel Allende
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    James Baldwin
    “You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Audre Lorde
    “I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: duty, pain, survival, trimuph, truth
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    James Baldwin
    “There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: compassion, pain, suffering
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois
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    Toni Morrison
    “Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: african-american, art, black, literature, sociology
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    Chinua Achebe
    “Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”
    ― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
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    Richard Wright
    “Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
    tags: hunger, poverty
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    433 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18231 likes



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