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“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”
― The Common Reader
― The Common Reader
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...”
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“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought”
― Mythologies
― Mythologies
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