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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

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“Once she had believed that connection meant sameness, consensus, harmony. Having everything in common. And now she understood that the opposite was true: that connection was more valuable—more remarkable—for the fact of differences. Friendship didn’t require blunting the richness of yourself to find common ground. Sometimes it was that, but it was also appreciating another person, in all their particularity.”
― Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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“How much of my mother's life I missed because I was a child”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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“Alone is a feeling you can get used to, and it's hard to believe in a better alternative.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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“If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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“Motherfucker, don’t you ever worry about what another man is doing. Worry about what the fuck you can do and do that, because what you can do is all you can do. It don’t fucking matter what another man is doing.”
― Roy Wood Jr., The Man of Many Fathers: Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir

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