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“For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
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“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
― A Way of Being
― A Way of Being
“Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
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