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“People have a right to think things will change. I allowed myself that much.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
“من اینجا ریشه در خاکم
من اینجا عاشق این خاک اگر آلوده یا پاکم
من اینجا تا نفس باقیست می مانم
من از اینجا چه می خواهم،نمی دانم
امید روشنائی گر چه در این تیره گیهانیست
من اینجا باز در این دشت خشک تشنه می رانم
من اینجا روزی آخر از دل این خاک با دست تهی
گل بر می افشانم
من اینجا روزی آخر از ستیغ کوه چون خورشید
سرود فتح می خوانم
و می دانم
تو روزی باز خواهی گشت”
―
من اینجا عاشق این خاک اگر آلوده یا پاکم
من اینجا تا نفس باقیست می مانم
من از اینجا چه می خواهم،نمی دانم
امید روشنائی گر چه در این تیره گیهانیست
من اینجا باز در این دشت خشک تشنه می رانم
من اینجا روزی آخر از دل این خاک با دست تهی
گل بر می افشانم
من اینجا روزی آخر از ستیغ کوه چون خورشید
سرود فتح می خوانم
و می دانم
تو روزی باز خواهی گشت”
―
“But my experience in this world has been that the people who believe themselves to be white are obsessed with the politics of personal exoneration. And the word racist, to them, conjures, if not a tobacco-spitting oaf, then something just as fantastic -- an orc, troll, or gorgon...This was the attempt to commit a shameful act while escaping all sanction, and I raise it to show you that there was no golden era when evildoers did their business and loudly proclaimed it as such.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I think self-esteem is a white invention to further separate one person from another. It asks people to assess their values and implies people have worth. It seems like identity capitalism.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
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