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“Just as some cultures have a hundred words for 'snow,' there should be a hundred words in our language for all the ways a black boy can lie awake at night.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“Don’t let it happen to you, Betty. Don’t ever be afraid to be yourself. You don’t wanna live so long only to realize, you ain’t lived at all.”
― Betty
― Betty
“My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me

“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half

“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so.”
― Open Water
― Open Water

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