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“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Sister Mine
― Sister Mine
“The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“... humility is just a humiliation you loved so much it transformed.”
― Jonny Appleseed
― Jonny Appleseed
“...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”
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“Everything I think I can't say 'cause it'd come out fucking emo, like, if I were to say what I've been thinking all day, every day: I don't know if I can go on like this forever; or, I'm also always thinking, it shouldn't be this hard just to have a brain. Everyone has a brain.”
― My Body Is a Book of Rules
― My Body Is a Book of Rules
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