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“Germans love applause”—she looked down at her own moving hands—“to the point where it hurts.”
― Calla Henkel, Other People’s Clothes

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“However, for me, based here in Sweden, the soil isn’t even fertile enough to allow Black women to thrive and grow. So, how could I transparently address Black joy when we’re still not confronting the problems that prevent Black women from thriving here?”
― Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black

“For socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov