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“You'll never fly, if you're too scared of the height,
You'll never live if you're just too scared to die,
Everybody wants heaven, I know
But darling freedom ain't free, it's a long road
You'll never find your place up there in the sky
If you never say goodbye.”
― Hardwell & Dyro & Bright Lights

“We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.”
― Audre Lorde

“It’s not just that you internalize the shame; rather, it becomes you. You no longer need the people at school telling you not to dress like that; you already do it to yourself.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“we have been taught to fear the very things that have the potential to set us free”
― Alok Vaid-Menon