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“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger