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“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
― Anais Nin

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“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: empowering, silence, speaking-out, spoken

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“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: beautiful, flowers, midnight

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“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

tags: liberation, oppression, resistance

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