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first of all—stranded due to snow? We’re barely on first-name terms with sleet in England,
“I would propose that to worry people are desensitized is to assume the jurors, and most people, were ever sensitive to Black pain to begin with.”
― You Got Anything Stronger?
― You Got Anything Stronger?
“The scene would give white people a chance to see themselves as complicit in cultural appropriation, but the takeaway for marginalized audiences would be different. It could tell them, "You're not crazy. Your physical and intellectual labor really has been stolen and repackaged for profit. It's real.”
― You Got Anything Stronger?
― You Got Anything Stronger?
“Freedom should be freeing, but that doesn't mean it can't be heartbreaking.”
― The First to Die at the End
― The First to Die at the End
“Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it’s the only way for your soul to breathe.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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