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“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!”
― Mary Monroe, God Don't Play

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Healing is a process, not a waiting room. Work on loving you and removing the people who don't.”
― Derrick Jaxn

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I don't want it all. I just want it right.”
― Derrick Jaxn

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“And I should say parenthetically, when I learned about this in May, I remembered when I was placed on the Ten Most Wanted. I didn’t make the Ten Most Wanted terrorist list, I think they didn’t have one at that time, but I made the Ten Most Wanted criminal list. And I was represented as armed and dangerous. And you know one of the things I remember thinking to myself was, what is this all about? What could I possibly do? And then I realized it wasn’t about me at all; it wasn’t about the individual at all. It was about sending a message to large numbers of people whom they thought they could discourage from involvement in the freedom struggles at that time.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”
― Angela Y. Davis

“Souxie, when a woman you don’t know doesn’t like you, that makes her the ugliest of them all, sweetheart.”
― Granger ., The Secret World of Maggie Grey