Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
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I’ll probably end up lying in my grave going, “Ugh, I feel like there’s something I should be doing right now. I wonder if everyone is angry at me. Oh my God, how long is this going to take? And what happens next?”
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There’s a Nayyirah Waheed quote: “If someone does not want me, it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
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Beethoven once said, “I will take fate by the throat. It will never bend me completely.”
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welcomed the doubt that is necessary for true belief.
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according to the extensive research I did by watching two movies.
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Maybe you took the train in from some suburb with a drive-through Starbucks.
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Pride becomes that place where you run into all your exes and first act shady to them and then act friendly to them, depending on what’s going on in your therapy sessions.
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I don’t live in that country, but every day by existing, by speaking, by loving, by writing, I make a vow to get there, step-by-step.