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“She gave me a puzzle in a box. She put the pieces together patiently, one by one, and completed the picture of me.”
― Miaojin Qiu (邱妙津)

“She had sought me out. I knew it would happen. Even if I had switched to a different section, she would have sought me out all the same. She, who hid in the crowd, who didn’t want anyone to see her behind her veil of averted eyes and aloofness. When I stepped forward, she came out, too. And she pointed and said, revealing a child’s wanton smile: “That’s the one I want.” And like a potted sunflower that had just been sold to a customer, I was taken away. There was no way to refuse. This, from a beautiful girl that I was already deeply, viscerally attracted to. Things were getting good.”
― Miaojin Qiu (邱妙津)

“The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity;”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed