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The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov Crush by Richard Siken Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison What the Living Do by Marie Howe Just Kids by Patti Smith Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich
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Alex’s Quotes

Octavia E. Butler
“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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Audre Lorde
“If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence.”
― Audre Lorde
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Sonia Sanchez
“This earth is hard symmetry
This earth of feverish war
This earth inflamed with hate”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
tags: earth, hate, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, people, war
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Sonia Sanchez
“How to dance
in blood and
remain sane?”
― Sonia Sanchez, Morning Haiku
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Charles Darwin
“Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.”
― Charles Darwin
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