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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.”
― Jean-Michel Basquiat

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula