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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
― James Baldwin

“What brought you here isn't your fault. We human beings have to live each day to its fullest and do our best in whatever environment we find ourselves in. There's no need to feel any shame just because your "fullest" and "best" look different from those of others.”
― Naoki Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

“Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

“I understand that I had engaged seriously with someone who only engaged theoretically, and I was so humiliated by this that we never spoke again.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster