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  • #1
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • #2
    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #3
    Audre Lorde
    “and when we speak we are afraid
    our words will not be heard
    nor welcomed
    but when we are silent
    we are still afraid
    So it is better to speak
    remembering
    we were never meant to survive”
    Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

  • #4
    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #5
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #6
    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #7
    Vincent van Gogh
    “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #8
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #9
    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #13
    Lemony Snicket
    “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

  • #14
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #15
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #16
    Audre Lorde
    “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #17
    Audre Lorde
    “Without community, there is no liberation.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #18
    Audre Lorde
    “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #19
    Audre Lorde
    “I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side”
    Audre Lorde

  • #20
    Audre Lorde
    “I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #21
    Joseph Fink
    “People are beautiful when they do beautiful things.”
    Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

  • #22
    Joseph Fink
    “It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.”
    Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

  • #23
    Joseph Fink
    “The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”
    Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

  • #24
    bell hooks
    “For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
    bell hooks

  • #25
    bell hooks
    “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”
    bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

  • #26
    James Baldwin
    “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
    James Baldwin

  • #27
    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #28
    Audre Lorde
    “young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.”
    Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

  • #29
    Vincent van Gogh
    “In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
    Vincent Van Gogh



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