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“Gratitude is a funny thing. It feels so similar to joy.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Embarrassment, as it turns out, is more powerful than information. And shame is the enemy of truth.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
― Hook
― Hook
“I could have my mother’s love, but there were terms, the same terms they had offered me three years before: that I trade my reality for theirs, that I take my own understanding and bury it, leave it to rot in the earth.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Nelson Mandela once said, "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, "I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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