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    Liz Berry
    “Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.”
    ― Liz Berry, The China Garden
    tags: education
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “The best revenge is living well without you. ”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, ed.
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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    Jaachynma N.E. Agu
    “Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”
    ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
    tags: accomplishments, african-american-authors, african-authors, agu-jaachynam-n-e, amazom, anyaele-sam-chiyson, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiysonovelty-bookclub, elections, entrepreneurship, fame, forbes, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, immortality, improvement, inspiration, international-authors, intimacy, it-is-time-to-get-very-rich, jaachynma, leadership, life, money, niche, nigerian-authors, president, reading, relationship, revolution, richest, risk-it, security, self-help, success, successful-living, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper, the-sagacity-of-sage, wealth
    240 likes

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    Daniel Black
    “You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you”
    ― Daniel Black , Perfect Peace
    tags: gus-peace, lies, perfect-peace
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  • #7
    Daniel Black
    “Denial makes people repeat what they aren’t willing to acknowledge.”
    ― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
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    Daniel Black
    “Sometimes, when people think they're putting obstacles in your path, they're actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same.”
    ― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
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  • #9
    Joyce Meyer
    “One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”
    ― Joyce Meyer, Any Minute
    tags: inspirational, mistakes, persistence
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  • #10
    Ntozake Shange
    “i found god in myself
    and i loved her
    i loved her fiercely”
    ― Ntozake Shange
    tags: poetry
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    Audre Lorde
    “The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

    The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
    tags: audre-lorde, erotic
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    Karen E. Quinones Miller
    “When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
    ― Karen E. Quinones Miller
    tags: confidence, determination, inspiration, motivation, negativity, self-confidence
    1868 likes

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  • #13
    Mackenzi Lee
    “You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.”
    ― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
    tags: feminism
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  • #14
    Mitch Albom
    “Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: confidence
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    Scott Meyer
    “In fact, after some thought, he couldn’t think of a word that meant female that men hadn’t imbued with some belittling shade of meaning.”
    ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
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  • #16
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: writing-advice
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    J.J. Johnson
    “My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once”
    ― JJ Johnson, This Girl Is Different
    tags: humorous
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    Charlaine Harris
    “I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Shakespeare's Landlord
    tags: arkansas, bard, cozy, lily, mystery, shakespeare
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    Rupi Kaur
    “if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision. There's no magic for that.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
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  • #21
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
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  • #22
    “Go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up your vocab”
    ― Bun B.
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  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Alafair Burke
    “I get sad every time I hear a person say "I don't read." It's like saying "I don't learn," or "I don't laugh," or "I don't live.”
    ― Alafair Burke
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    Alafair Burke
    “So much past inside my present. —Feist”
    ― Alafair Burke, If You Were Here
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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    Casey Cep
    “Self-pity is a sin,” she told a reporter in 1963, already frustrated, only three years after Mockingbird. “It is a form of living suicide.”
    ― Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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    Casey Cep
    “her five favorite novels: Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh, Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, Richard Hughes’s High Wind in Jamaica, and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.”
    ― Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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  • #29
    Dorothea Benton Frank
    “Few people realize how much courage it takes in a community like ours to ignore the established taboos.”
    ― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife
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  • #30
    “Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”
    ― Tamanend
    tags: american-culture, beach, earth, native-american, nature, ocean, outdoors, romance, utopia-peace, wisdom
    171 likes



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