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“Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

tags: equality, gender, gender-roles, gender-stereotypes

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“Approaching the Start of Civil Exams

Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar
approaching the start of civil exams,
my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion
with books on syntax and poetic style.

All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains
and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples
that grew in the valleys of my province.

But I had been gone over six years
busy with studies in the Heavenly City
empty and thin despite my work.

I showed my verses to an older poet
who told me a truth I longed to believe:
all knowledge is futile and barren
which does not open the love of your friends.”
― Jim Chapson

tags: barren, blossoms, books, busy, chinese, friendship, futile, knowledge, love, mist, mountains, poet, poetic, sad, scholar, seclusion, style, sweet, syntax, truth, verses, weary, work

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“a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light”
― Gu Cheng

tags: chinese, contemporary, nameless-flowers, poetry

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“We never expressed this to each other in Chinese, because it wasn’t something said in Chinese culture; the emotions were too strong, the words too coarse, and besides, it was assumed that parents and children loved each other.”
― Atom Yang, Red Envelope

tags: children, chinese, culture, emotions, family, love, parents

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“I grew up thinking the only scriptures on earth were those inspired by the Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament, the words and letters of Jesus and his apostles, and the scriptures of the Restoration. But how could the God I believed was the loving God of all the earth not speak somehow to everyone else? For years I wrestled with this idea. Having now read the Chinese classics, certainly Confucius, but others as well, I believe I have found the scriptural infusion God gave the Chinese nation. Mencius is my favorite, I must admit, and I do not hesitate to call what he bestowed upon the world scripture--some of the most optimistic, holy writing the world has.”
― S. Michael Wilcox, 10 Great Souls I Want to Meet in Heaven

tags: china, chinese, god, history, jesus-christ, scripture, world

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