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#1

“Read every day and learn from what you read.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

tags: octavia-butler, read, reading, reads

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#2

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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#3

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

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#4

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

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#5

“Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: astronomy, cosmos, science, space, universe

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#6

“Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: astronomy, cosmos, nasa, science, space, universe

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#7

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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#8

“The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: astronomy, cosmos, painting, photography, science, space, starry-night, universe, vincent-van-gogh

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#9

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

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#10

“So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

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#11

“Black women’s stories look a lot different from what you’ve heard. And when black women speak for themselves, the picture presented is nuanced, empowering, and hopeful.”
― Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

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#12

“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

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#13

“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire

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#14

“If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: astronomy, cosmos, science, space, universe

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#15

“The four most common chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on Earth. We are not simply in the universe. The universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: science

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#16

“No one can define black women but black women.”
― Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

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#17

“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: astronomy, cosmos, science, space

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#18

“I ain't shit. You ain't shit. She ain't shit. Okay, great. Let's move forward with authentic growth and progress.”
― Feminista Jones, Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

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#19

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl.”
― Shirley Chisholm

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#20

“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
― Junot Díaz

tags: elvish, lord-of-the-rings, racism, spanish, white-people

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#21

“One of my biggest weaknesses, one that has always shamed me, is that I have always been lonely. I've struggled to make friends because I can be socially awkward, because I'm weird, because I live in my head.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

tags: awkward, bad-feminist, feminism, feminist, loneliness, lonely, roxane-gay

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#22

“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: citizen, colbert, cosmos, informed-citizen, science, science-literacy, space, stephen-colbert, universe

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#23

“I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: astronomy, cosmos, science, space, universe

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#24

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion, science, skepticism

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#25

“Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.
No judgment implied. Just an observation.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: astronomy, cosmos, science, space, universe

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#26

“When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

tags: astronomy, nasa, ndt, science, space

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#27

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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#28

“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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#29

“today it is clear that Indigenous peoples everywhere are-and always have been-the miner's canary on a global scale. In a hyper-industrialized, super-exploitative world, what happens to indigenous peoples will eventually happen to everyone.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Dina Gilio-Whitaker

tags: capitalism, colonization, history, indigenous, oppression, white-supremacy

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#30

“The ONLY thing you should be saying to be is that you recognize that you were born into a racist, white supremacist system that imbued you with racist ideals from birth. That you recognize your racism, privilege, and inherent bias and are actively working to unlearn it. If you are not saying that then you are not saying anything, and you don't have permission to speak to me.”
― Seren Sensei, So, About That... A Year Of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture

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