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“There’s a word for it,” she told me, “in French, for when you have a lingering impression of something having passed by. Sillage. I always think of it when a firework explodes and lights up the smoke from the ones before it.” “That’s a
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“In principle, it was easy to support the civil rights movement in Mississippi or Washington or on the streets of Detroit. Of course, it was right. But feeling- now, there's a war zone full of land mines which could blow to smithereens any right-thinking individual. And that of course is the territory of race.”
― Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race
― Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race
“To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!”
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“You have to get angry in the face of bad situations. It's the most effective way to escape the bridles of despair.”
― The Xactilias Project
― The Xactilias Project
“Growing up wrinkles the skin, giving up wrinkles the soul.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“You're not defeated when you lose a battle.
You are defeated when you give up the struggle”
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You are defeated when you give up the struggle”
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