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“All the little quirks that make you up are not extinguished because somebody once chose against them.”
― Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go

“Small talk is for small people. Conversations are for the elite.”
― Salma Farook, What Your Soul Already Knows

“Living in a female body, a Black body, an aging body, a fat body, a body with mental illness is to awaken daily to a planet that expects a certain set of apologies to already live on our tongues. There is a level of “not enough” or “too much” sewn into these strands of difference.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“In its dormant state, absent bright, green leaves or the rustle of birds nesting in limbs, the tree still stands proud and tall.”
― Patrice Gopo, All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way