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“You’re incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
“Anger is not inherently destructive. My anger can be a force for good. My anger can be creative and imaginative, seeing a better world that doesn’t yet exist. It can fuel a righteous movement toward justice and freedom.”
― I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
― I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”
― We Are Okay
― We Are Okay
“You say you want a happy ending, but neither of those words is really what you're searching for. For instance, you will not live to see a just world. But you will live to see acts of justice.”
― Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
― Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
“This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up.”
― I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
― I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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