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#1

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: art, artist, artistic, contemplating, dreams, experience, fantasy, fun, imagination, life, perception, perspective, poetry, reading, reality, solitude, songwriting, thinking, thoughts, universe, vicarious, writing

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#2

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?

tags: exploitation, greed, privilege

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#3

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

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#4

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

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#5

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

tags: life, love

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#6

“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: healing, love

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#7

“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: indigenous-wisdom, plants

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#8

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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#9

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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#10

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

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