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Nobody is in love with me and everything is still warm. Still soft. Still rosewater and a typewriter ribbon. Still cookbooks and salt air and sheer black lingerie. Still red lipstick. Still mostly kind. Still often uncomplicated. Still mints at the bottom of my purse, hair held back, pulse thumping through skin. Still sweet tea in a pitcher on the kitchen counter, a cold glass with three lemon slices, a full ice cube tray. I don’t understand how it’s all so light.

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You have to love you right. That’s all you got. Even when everybody else is bent on loving you wrong, and wrong begins to look like it’s not that wrong, you got to love yourself right. Especially then. And you got to do it in public. You got to do it where everybody can notice and say, That girl there? She love herself. She love herself like she teaching a class in loving herself.

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"Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red." — Kait Rokowski

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"'I've tried to do something with myself. Something real and beautiful, I mean. But what's the good of trying? I've tried to make people, every one I come in contact with, happy --'

'Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death. Not happy, Muriel. Say that you have tried to make them create. Say that you have used your own capacity for life to cradle them. To start them upward-flowing. Or if you can't say that you have, say that you will.'"

Excerpt from Cane by Jean Toomer
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"Life is going to present to you a series of transformations. And the point of education should be to transform you. To teach you how to be transformed so you can ride the waves as they come. But today, the point of education is not education. It’s accreditation. The more accreditation you have, the more money you make. That’s the instrumental logic of neoliberalism. And this instrumental logic comes wrapped in an envelope of fear. And my Ivy League, my MIT students are the same. All I feel coming off of my students is fear. That if you slip up in school, if you get one bad grade, if you make one fucking mistake, the great train of wealth will leave you behind. And that’s the logic of accreditation. If you’re at Yale, you’re in the smartest 1% in the world. […] And the brightest students in the world are learning in fear. I feel it rolling off of you in waves. But you can’t learn when you’re afraid. You cannot be transformed when you are afraid."

Junot Díaz, speaking at Yale  

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"A woman of color who writes poetry or paints or dances or makes movies knows there is no escape from race or gender when she is writing or painting. She can't take off her color and sex and leave them at the door of her study or studio. Nor can she leave behind her history. Art is about identity, among other things, and her creativity is political." - Gloria Anzaldua, Making Face|Making Soul; Haciendo Caras - Creative and Cultural Perspectives by Women of Color

"Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them" - Annette Messager

"I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to me." - Hunter Reveur

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say. --- T.S. Eliot

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“'No, a star star. In the sky. Keep your eyes closed, think about what it feels like to be one.'” He moved over to her and kissed her shoulder. 'Imagine yourself in that dark, all alone in the sky at night. Nobody is around you. You are by yourself, just shining there. You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself, it’s not a twinkle, it’s more like a throb. Star throbs. Over and over and over. Like this. Stars just throb and throb and throb and sometimes, when they can’t throb anymore, when they can’t hold it anymore, they fall out of the sky.'”

"Tar Baby" by Toni Morrison

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"When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth." - Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
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"I had to chant my own name to manifest my self." - Christa Bell

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul." - Swami Vivekananda

"Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating." - Libba Bray

"A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself." - Anthony Anaxagorou

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