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“Her beauty was intimidating, for this reason she was admired from afar, yet no one ever came close.”— Isabel Allende
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“Come with all your shame, come with your swollen heart, I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than you.”— Warsan Shire
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the distances we travel to convince ourselves, the lengths we go to convincing ourselves we aren’t worthy of happiness, the long strides we take on the road of self-preservation, the absences we allow empty for the sake of not wanting to know better; the lengths we go to casting shadows on streams of light, the persistence on ugliness because beauty is too sweet, the fear of falling after reaching the peak. the fear, the fear, the fear; it grows. abhorrent is the night that taught us isolation like the back of our own hand, abhorrent is the yearning that has shaped us; abhorrent is the blood that didn’t bear death; abhorrent is the pain that found refuge in our bones.
“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them.”
— Edward Said (via aishawarma)
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“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (via theclassicsreader)
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