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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
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    “We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.”
    ― Fred Hampton, I Am A Revolutionary: Fred Hampton Speaks
    tags: black-panther-party, bpp, civil-rights, human-rights, racism, revolutionary, solidarity
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    Rudolf Virchow
    “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a large scale.”
    ― Rudolf Virchow
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    Wendell Berry
    “Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”
    ― Wendell Berry
    tags: justice, mercy
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  • #5
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    John Green
    “I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
    ― John Green
    tags: john-green
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
    tags: magic
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  • #8
    Fred Rogers
    “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
    ― Fred Rogers
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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  • #10
    bell hooks
    “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”
    ― Bell Hooks
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  • #11
    “If not us, then who?
    If not now, then when?”
    ― John Lewis
    tags: action, change, civil-rights, integrity, moral-courage, personal-responsibility
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  • #12
    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    ― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    tags: art, capitalism, change, literature, power, resistance, writing
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  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #15
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Lana Del Rey
    “Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: attitude, inspirational, life
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “Do you know,' he said again softly, addressing his hands, 'what it is to love someone, and never - never! - be able to give them peace, or joy, or happiness?'

    He looked up then, eyes filled with pain. 'To know that you cannot give them happiness, not through any fault of yours or theirs, but only because you were not born the right person for them?”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
    tags: love, right-person
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Morgan Matson
    “And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.”
    ― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
    tags: kiss, kissing, love, romance
    63 likes

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    Angela Y. Davis
    “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
    ― Angela Davis
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  • #22
    Paul Farmer
    “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
    ― Paul Farmer
    tags: humanity, wrong-with-the-world
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  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: death, loss, sisters
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    Lana Del Rey
    “I was always an unusual girl.
    My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: born-to-die, chameleon, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, life, lyrics, moral-compass, mother, music, ocean, personality, pop, ride, single, song, soul, unusual, wise
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  • #25
    Angela Y. Davis
    “Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
    ― Angela Davis
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  • #26
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Warsan Shire
    “To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
    ― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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  • #28
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    ― Steven Kloves
    tags: movie-quote
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  • #29
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
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    Warsan Shire
    “You tried to change didn’t you?
    closed your mouth more
    tried to be softer
    prettier
    less volatile, less awake
    but even when sleeping you could feel
    him travelling away from you in his dreams
    so what did you want to do love
    split his head open?
    you can’t make homes out of human beings
    someone should have already told you that
    and if he wants to leave
    then let him leave
    you are terrifying
    and strange and beautiful
    something not everyone knows how to love.”
    ― Warsan Shire
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  • #31
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: art, destiny, inspirational, on-writing
    229 likes



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