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#1

“I don't think Michelle [Obama:] minds bein our new muse. I think she gets it. We little brown girls - drunk off The Cosby Show, sobered up by life, and a little suicidal - we need her.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

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#2

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: children

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#3

“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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#4

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

tags: reading, writing

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#5

“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

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#6

“Two thousand and seven was the year we officially entered our late twenties - the starting line of the death march to menopause.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

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#7

“Crazy astraunaut ladies and fabulous twenty-something black chicks are in the same spaceship: they're aliens among men blasting off to who knows where.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

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#8

“What does 'wifey material' even mean when someone at the Washington Post thinks the headline 'Marriage Is for White People?' is okay? The article, of course, became another one of Gina's and my obsessions. The Washington fucking Post was against us now.”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

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#9

“By then she was the only one of her seven siblings without a child and quickly approaching thirty (which is like forty when you adjust for inflation since 1980).”
― Helena Andrews, Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

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#10

“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”
― James Baldwin

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#11

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

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#12

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#13

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

tags: growth

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#14

“To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.”
― Alvin Ailey

tags: alvin-ailey, inspirational

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#15

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
― Audre Lorde

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#16

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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#17

“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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#18

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: empowering, silence, speaking-out, spoken

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#19

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

59859 likes

#20

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#21

“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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#22

“One sister for sale,
One sister for sale,
One crying and spying young sister for sale
I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding
Do I hear a dollar?
A nickle?
A penny?
Oh isnt there isnt there isnt there any
One person who will buy this sister for sale
This crying spying old young sister for sale.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: poem

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