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#1

“Not every bitch is a queen. Most chicks are just regular. Most of them know it and accept it, as long as nobody points it out. A queen is authentic, not because she says so, just because she is. A queen doesn’t have to say nothing. Everybody can see it, and feel it, too.”
― Sister Souljah, A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story

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#2

“I imagine us in Eden—
two black boys in Paradise,
naked, no fig leaves.
Adam and Eve are long gone,
so Kieran and Michael
inherit the garden
and the serpent is forgotten
and the fruit on the tree of knowledge
has gone rotten”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

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#3

“Besides, the only reason
I want to make this is for that first scene anyway: the little black boy
on the bus with a toy dinosaur, his eyes wide & endless

his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there.”
― Danez Smith, Black Movie

tags: black-boy-joy, black-joy, black-lives-matter, dinosaurs

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#4

“Speak only when your words are more beautiful than silence”
― Imam Ali (AS)

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#5

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: inner-beauty, nobility-of-spirit, soulful

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#6

“I call myself black.
I call myself queer.
I call myself beautiful.
I call myself eternal.
I call myself iconic.
I call myself futuristic.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

tags: black, queer

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#7

“We are different people now, yes, but those girls were magic.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

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#8

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

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#9

“I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

tags: books, madeline-whittier, reading-book

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#10

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8474 likes

#11

“Know that there is a time coming in your life when dirt settles and the patterns form a picture.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

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#12

“It’s like you’re screaming but no one can hear. You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important, that without them, you feel like nothing. No one will ever understand how much it hurts. You feel hopeless, like nothing can save you. And when it’s over and it’s gone, you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so you can have the good.”
― Rihanna

tags: music, rihanna, video, we-found-love

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#13

“I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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#14

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: blood, cruelty, fear, gods, religion, suffering

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#15

“Godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed”
― Kristin Chang

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#16

“i’m a poet who writes in english come to share the worlds witchu”
― Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

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#17

“It's not your fault, I'm a bitch, I'm a monster
Yes, I'm a beast, and I feast when I conquer
But I'm alone on my throne, all these riches
I came this way, all this way just to say, ayy
This time, won't you save me?”
― Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday (Exclusive 18-Track Ultimate Version) by Minaj, Nicki

tags: lyrics, nicki-minaj, pink-friday, poetry, song, song-lyrics

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#18

“I think it's incredible what you can find with just a quick trip down to your local library”
― Denise Hemphill

tags: scream-queens

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#19

“Anyway, I think I met him sometime before, in a different life or where I record. I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve, but my vision ends with the apple on the tree”
― Nicki Minaj

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#20

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#21

“I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: people

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#22

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
― John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

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#23

“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.”
― Adam Elenbass

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#24

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

6576 likes

#25

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11646 likes

#26

“You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: eating-disorders

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#27

“Today and all days, I am thankful for women of color who love/write/create/emote from the root and never apologize for their magic.”
― Upile Chisala, soft magic.

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#28

“I look at my skin and it is glowing with constellations of ancestors. I ask them about escape and freedom and listen for revelation.”
― Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

tags: black-girl-magic, black-women-quotes, melanin

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#29

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have poetry.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

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#30

“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: monsters, scared

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