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“But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“If someone gives you permission, they can take it away. I give myself permission.”
― Lucille Clifton

“I once heard an artist say that when a person has no problems, the mind automatically finds a way to invent some.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“America, while you were asleep another woman mourned her dead black lover’s bullet-ridden body, as his baby cried for her father’s life.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada