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    Audre Lorde
    “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
    ― audre lorde
    tags: preservation, self-care
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    James Baldwin
    “The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Ida B. Wells-Barnett
    “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
    ― Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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    James Baldwin
    “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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    Audre Lorde
    “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength
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    Mark Twain
    “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Fannie Lou Hamer
    “You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.”
    ― Fannie Lou Hamer
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    Alice Walker
    “I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.”
    ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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    “When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.”
    ― Bayard Rustin
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    “We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.”
    ― Bayard Rustin
    tags: civil-disobedience, inspirational, making-a-difference-in-the-world
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    Reinaldo Arenas
    “How can someone be wise who isn’t even remotely happy?”
    ― Reinaldo Arenas, The Doorman
    tags: happiness, wisdom
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    “Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.”
    ― Christy Evans
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #25
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
    24381 likes



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