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“Bigotry is ugly, but even more so when it poses as virtue”

“I want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I’m amazed that we’re not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all of this” -108

“Because I am born into a created system of corruption does not mean I have to turn the other way when the fake moral screens are unfurled. I am just as Carole of creating my own morals contexts”

“Heaven is a place on earth, heaven is a place in your head “