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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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“I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.”
― Alan Lee

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“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

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“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”
― A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven

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“For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.”
― A.M. Homes

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“There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.”
― A.M. Homes

tags: connection, love, universal

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