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"A must read for anyone who’s ever had issues with eating or food" Sep 12, 2025 06:43AM

 
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Langston Hughes
“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
Langston Hughes

Walt Whitman
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Toni Morrison
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
Toni Morrison, Beloved

Kahlil Gibran
“Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
Khalil Gibran

Ntozake Shange
“i found god in myself
and i loved her
i loved her fiercely”
Ntozake Shange

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