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I didn’t know how … deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.
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“Already, men scheme for new lands beyond our planet, surfaces and moons to mine and profit from, to colonize and populate without a single glance at the place they’ve left burning. Earth, an abandoned mother”
― Brown Girls
― Brown Girls
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”
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“I just enjoy the moment I’m in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It’s like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the faucet. It’s the totality of life”
― The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
― The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
“They ask questions about the wall the current U.S. president wants to build, and is it true that Muslims are barred from entering the country, and what about the caravan of refugees fleeing gang violence at the border? We discuss all the ways the Land of the Free, under the present administration, currently “welcomes” its newcomers.”
― Brown Girls
― Brown Girls
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
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