“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
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“Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.”
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“I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart”
― Poems from the Heart
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart”
― Poems from the Heart
“The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.”
― The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege
― The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege
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