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“So I am not a broken heart.
I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete. I am not this year and I am not your fault. I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day, but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries once a week and I am not sitting for hours in the shower anymore. I am the way a life unfolds and bloom and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest winter into a field of green and flowers and new life. I am not your fault.” -Charlotte Eriksson |
Power is the ability to make people say yes when they’d rather say no.
—Anonymous |
Wings...
I'm not alone in this experience, the inevitable has already caressed every human being on the face of the Earth. Some recovered, others gave up, but we have all experienced the touch of the wings of tragedy..." ~Paulo Coelho |
MLK Day
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King
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“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.”
― Ella Baker "We're going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see." -- Viola Gregg Liuzzo |
Leaders...
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Perspective...
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Beautiful things...
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Smile...
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Beloved...
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True Love...
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A drop of you...
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The rose...
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In consideration of the annual march for life today...
“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.” Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman |
Happy birthday to Patricia Highsmith
“... She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.”
-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt (Jan. 19, 1921 - Feb. 4, 1995) |
“People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.” ~Faulkner
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All false prophets create a heightened sense of looming danger that allows them to consolidate power to a tragic end. Historically, the reaction of the panicked people is to retreat to their respective "tribes," and there you see the rise of protectionism, nationalism, populism, xenophobia, nativism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia, with the corresponding reactions of increased hate speech and violence toward anything "foreign." ... Today, Trump is the West's most powerful false prophet.
—Vicente Fox, Former President of Mexico |
More power to Mo’Nique
I’ma throw shade, if I can’t get paid. —Lil Kim
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Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. - Virginia Woolf
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Love Poem...
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The Valley of Unrest by Edgar Allan Poe
Once it smiled a silent dell Where the people did not dwell; They had gone unto the wars, Trusting to the mild-eyed stars, Nightly, from their azure towers, To keep watch above the flowers, In the midst of which all day The red sun-light lazily lay. Now each visitor shall confess The sad valley’s restlessness. Nothing there is motionless— Nothing save the airs that brood Over the magic solitude. Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees That palpitate like the chill seas Around the misty Hebrides! Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven That rustle through the unquiet Heaven Uneasily, from morn till even, Over the violets there that lie In myriad types of the human eye— Over the lilies there that wave And weep above a nameless grave! They wave:—from out their fragrant tops External dews come down in drops. They weep:—from off their delicate stems Perennial tears descend in gems... - Edgar Allan Poe |
“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
― Laurence Binyon |
Happy Birthday Langston Hughes
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
~ Franklin Mercer Langston Hughes |
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“Whatever you do, don’t run back to what broke you.”
-Frank Ocean |
“Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.”
— Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts |
“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”
—Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer |
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”
Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar |
Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very very hard on you. ―Srividya Srinivasan
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RIP :-(
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
- Stephen Hawking |
Hope grows out of the struggle for justice.
—Reverand William Barber II |
“If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring |
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel".
Maya Angelou.... |
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power".
Abraham Lincoln |
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