“The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.”
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“Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.”
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“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
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“It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.”
― Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
― Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
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