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“There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken. There is a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief, which leads to joy. And a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being" --the poetess Rashani, quoted by”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
― Krik? Krak!
― Krik? Krak!
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A place where writers of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation can share what they are currently reading.
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