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The Darkest Child

by Delores Phillips

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David Jay’s Quotes

“Nobody love a black girl. Not even herself”
― Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun

tags: black, colorism, colourism, here-comes-the-sun, jamaican

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“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“Gay is the opium of the people.”
― Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

tags: gay, queer-politics

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“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

tags: choices, life

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