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When you are a person of color, sometimes you don’t want to think the color is affecting your life. Sometimes you want to hope that people are more focused on the person part of “person of color.” You want to believe, even though you know
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“I once heard an artist say that when a person has no problems, the mind automatically finds a way to invent some.”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“my love has been known to perform miracles.”
― Questions for Ada
― Questions for Ada
“twice broken, three times more powerful.”
― Questions for Ada
― Questions for Ada
“That’s when communication fails: when people start making assumptions. Don’t infer I feel something based on something I never said.”
― Trespassing
― Trespassing
“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.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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