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People fear being someone else’s hope.
Silence is never as cold and sterile as it is in hospitals.
sad woman is a blade hanging over the world, threatening to fall at any moment.
Your daughter has cancer, but you’re not being productive, motherfucker, so we’re firing you. Welcome to the American Dream.
We’ve been strangling and beating each other with rocks and sticks since we stopped dragging our knuckles and swinging from branches. Guns are the natural next step.
Normal people can’t imagine committing a crime, much less killing a person. People who are dead inside are different.
Anyone who talks to you about someone else will talk to someone else about you,
Being broke is not a financial status; it’s a state of mind. It breaks you.
It was a house that spoke of poverty and old folks rotting away alone in front of old TV sets and surrounded by photos of family that rarely visits.
Our moods are often shaped by the landscape we’re in.
The distance between a desperate man and a dead man can be a fistful of dollars.
idea that someone can think being a certain color or from a certain place makes you better or worse than anyone else is a level of stupidity I can’t wrap my head around.
When you spend time with someone who stands out, the prolonged contact with their uniqueness makes it fade, and their differences, so obvious when you first meet them, blend into your reality.
When you see some racist shit going down, you speak the fuck up. Your words will mean something…and so will your silence.”
Ignorance is dangerous, but knowing takes time and effort, and that’s something many of us don’t have.
Guilt is a painful thing, and humans have a talent for finding ways of blaming things on others to steer clear of it.
Too many coincidences often mean there is no coincidence at all.
