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“Doesn't it overwhelm you sometimes -- To be alive? Don't you sometimes feel like at any moment you could be torn away from yourself? From your life?”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“I am not promiscuous with my warmth, but when I share it, my warmth can be as hot as the sun.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“We've got to get on the same page before we can turn it.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“It’s not being radical to point out that people on the fringe have to be better than people in the mainstream, that they have twice as much to prove. In trying to get people to see your humanity, you reveal just that: your humanity. Your fundamentally problematic nature. All the unique and terrible ways in which people can, and do, fail.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“It seemed as if my life was waiting for me outside that room, like a polite guest I'd left behind at the table. It was rude to keep him waiting. It helped to think of my life as someone separate from me, a person who didn't deserve to be abandoned.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
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