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“I mean, I just think it’s important that they’re comfortable telling you things without fearing if they handled the situation correctly.”
“Sometimes people want to keep you where you were because they’re afraid of where you’re going.”
“Can you ever just feel your feelings? Or when everyone’s looking at you for direction, you always have to be stone? That’s not fair… You should be able to express how you feel and not be judged for it.”
Every other angle from the boat showed a midnight blue sky. But in the view ahead of them, the ball of sun said its final goodbye while being absorbed by the ocean’s horizon. A tantalizing layer of tangerine hovered under clouds.
All hard niggas don’t look like that, and all niggas that look like that ain’t hard,”
Success is a result of ambition combined with hard work. That’s character traits.”
“That’s where people get it fucked up. Love is not exclusive. We just want it to be, because we’re all selfish. The thought of not being enough scares us. We want someone only to want us. But is it love to want someone to only be with you, continue being with you, even if you know they’re not completely fulfilled? Who do you really love? Them? Or yourself?”
I was born with an obligation to support and protect everyone around me. It’s my patriarchal duty to provide and protect. But my protection has limits, and I don’t like that.
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