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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
― James Baldwin, James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“Tell your story until it becomes woven into the fabric of our story. Write about the joys and the pain and every event and every artist who inspires you to dream. Tell your story, because if you don't, it could be wiped out. No one tells our stories for us. And one more thing. If you see an elderly person walking down the street, or across from you at a coffee shop, don't look away from them, don't dismiss them, and don't just ask them how they're doing. Ask them where they have been instead. And then listen. Because there's no future without a past.”
― Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

“Humans are really strange. When no one validates you, you often can't perceive your own value.”
― Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara

“The first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself.”
― Ling Ma, Severance