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Remember on the right night and under the right light any idea can seem like a good one and love love is mostly ill advised but always brave.
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James Baldwin
“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

Pearl Cleage
“This society gives points for pregnancy and for birthing, but after that, we isolate the mother and the baby and expect them to function the best way they can. It is very anti-family, anti-woman, anti-person!”
Pearl Cleage, Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons, & Love Affairs

Malcolm X
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. I”
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Frantz Fanon
“there is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.”
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Sherwood Anderson
“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
Sherwood Anderson

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