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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak, because in this barbaric society, when women speak truly they speak subversively - they can't help it: if you're underneath, if you're kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

That's what I want - to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you - I want to hear you.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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“In most black people, there is a South Side, a sense of home, that never leaves, and yet to compete in the world, we have to go forth. So we learn to code-switch and become bilingual. We save our Timberlands for the weekend, and our jokes for the cats in the mail room. Some of us give ourselves up completely and become the mask, while others overcompensate and turn every dustup into the Montgomery bus boycott.
But increasingly, as we move into the mainstream, black folks are taking a third road -- becoming ourselves.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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