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Karena Bakas
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For the first time in weeks the night was clear, and our breath made pale dragons in the still air.
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has “legs,” so to speak. Couple the vulnerability of youth with indifferent parents, dismissive adults, and a world, which, in its language, laws, and images, re-enforces despair, and the journey to destruction is sealed.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“But whatever sameness I’ve noted in my relationships with women is not the sameness of Woman, and certainly not the sameness of parts. Rather, it is the shared, crushing understanding of what it means to live in a patriarchy.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
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