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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Alice Walker

Yaa Gyasi
“I understood that the same thing that made humans great - our recklessness and creativity and curiosity - was also the thing that hampered the lives of everything around us. Because we were the animal daring enough to take boats out to sea, even when we thought the world was flat and that our boats would fall off the edge, we discovered new land, different people, roundness. The cost of this discovery was the destruction of that new land, those different people. Without us oceans wouldn't be turning to acid, frogs and bats and bees and reefs wouldn't be heading for extinction.”
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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