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Marjane Satrapi
“Night brings good counsel", my grandmother always told me.”
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.”
George Miller

Ursula K. Le Guin
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Ursula K. Le Guin

“When I Am Among the Trees"

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky”
Ojibwe saying.

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