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Just Above My Head

by James Baldwin

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“If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: control, force, hurt, loss, love, pain, practice, risk, saftey, security

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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“The choice to love is a choice to connect--- to find ourselves in the other.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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