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Debi Cates (not getting notifications GRrrrr) Debi Cates (not getting notifications GRrrrr) said: " Yvettte and Rose 2025/09/30
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“Before I am your daughter,
your sister,
your aunt, niece, or cousin,
I am my own person,
and I will not set fire to myself
to keep you warm.”
Elizabeth Gracely

Claire Oshetsky
“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.”
Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

“I fight White supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her. Rochelle Rice, musician”
Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

Niall Williams
“Now, as far as I was concerned, there are two ways of living, and because we're on a ball in space these were more or less exactly poles apart. The first, accept the world as it is. The world is concrete and considerable, with beauties and flaws both, and both immense, profound and perplexing, and if you can take it as it is and for what it is you'll all but guarantee an easier path, because it's a given that acceptance is one of the keys to any kind of contentment. The second, that acceptance is surrender, that there's a place for it, but that place is somewhere just before your last breath where you say "All right then, I have tried" and accept that you have lived and loved as best you could, have pushed against every wall, stood up after every disappointment, and until that last moment, you shouldn't accept anything, you should make things better.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

Walt Whitman
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains?”

“Nature remains.”
Walt Whitman, Specimen Days

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