“You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.”
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“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life?”
― Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
― Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
“Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed.”
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
― Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
“The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
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