"To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it."
Howard's End
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The Color Purple book
"Folks donβt like nobody being too proud or too free."
The Color Purple
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"He was dressed, however, in a tight-fitting #suit of sky-#blue satin, with a short cloak of the same material, and his boots were of a brilliant jet."
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βFor what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?β
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βTraining is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.β
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"To live in a world where even to draw a breath of air is an act of dignity."
Native Son by Richard Wright
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βYou touched my life like a breeze through a window β and left nothing behind but longing.β
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"They will not use my tears for their entertainment "
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"I don't want to be anyone's friend. I just want to sit in my corner and watch my shows."
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"Suspicion is a contagious disease. It starts with a seed of doubt and grows like wildfire."
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βThe Vimy Trap is about what happens when history is replaced with myth, and when commemoration becomes celebration.β
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βWe are all stardust and stories.β
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βNormalizing the abnormal is how you lose a country.β
Hiding in plain sight by Sarah Kendzior
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Revolutionary Prudence Wright by @bethanderson.bsky.social and Susan Reagan.
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"Looking at caste is like holding the country's X-ray up to the light."
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"Government, according to the myth, cannot improve the functioning of markets; it can only interfere."
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"Worrying about a hundred other things that have nothing to do with all this, because worrying is a runaway train."
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βThey feed on hate. And Lord, donβt this country got plenty to spare.β
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"Poison ivy is a paradox. Itβs a plant that can harm people, yet it plays an important role in nature."
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βI donβt know how to live in a world where Iβm not running.β
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"Traveling alone in remote areas has one great advantage: one is forced to rely entirely on oneself, and to make decisions alone."
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βThere are things you can never take back. Words that can never be unsaid.β
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"I am trying to love the broken pieces of myself without waiting for someone else to do it for me."
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"Her eco-spiritual worldview combined a profound connection to nature with an unshakeable trust in divine guidance."
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"If only there were a way to hold a moment in your hands and keep it alive forever."
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"Hope is such a wonderful thing until it isnβt."
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"Religion is just a controlling tool that they employ and adhere to when convenient."
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βNo one tells you itβs all about to change, to be taken away. There is no proximity alert, no indication that youβre standing on the precipice.β
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Narrator: "Someone tried to tell us"
"Fear is a language, and we all learn it in different ways."
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βA third of our land is still owned by the aristocracy, their ancestors having seized it through conquest, theft, and exploitation.β
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