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Unexpected Vanilla

by Hyemi Lee

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Ode to Walt Whitman (Spanish Edition)

by Federico García Lorca

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The Things We Never Say

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Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky

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And he had written his name upon my body. Oh yes, my dears. And I had welcomed him to do it. I had wanted him to do it. And I didn’t want this man to feel any other feeling than love, for me. And so I covered

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“If anyone should ask a Negro woman in America what has been her greatest achievement, her honest answer would be, ‘I survived!”
― Pauli Murray

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“We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to the power of a government or of one social group over another: these are only a few particular instances of power.

Power is anything that tends to render immobile and untouchable those things that are offered to us as real, as true, as good.”
― Michel Foucault

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“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
― Eugene V. Debs

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“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

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