I wasn’t used to this treatment. Back home, people gave me a wide berth. Maybe it was because I was the only tall woman of Black and Japanese descent in the mountain village.
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
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“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
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“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Blue Light
― Blue Light
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