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“The most dangerous among us come dressed as eagles and we learn too late they are chickens in disguise. (Speech to seniors at Klein Forest High School)”
― Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
― Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes.”
― The Anatomy of Being
― The Anatomy of Being
“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.
It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“In all my life— though surrounded by many people— I had not had a single satisfying, sustained relationship with another human being and, not having had any, I did not miss it. I made no demands whatever upon others.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which each one of us within our hearts knows “that is not me.” In america, this norm is usually defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, christian, and financially secure. It is with this mythical norm that the trappings of power reside within this society. Those of us who stand outside that power often identify one way in which we are different, and we assume that to be the primary cause of all oppression, forgetting other distortions around difference, some of which we ourselves may be practicing.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Aslı’s 2025 Year in Books
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