"I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized."

-- Audre Lorde

“The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic.”
“Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.”

Source : Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.6, Gottfried & Fritz
“Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.”
“Good is good, but better carrieth it.”
“Trump will not resign. But the allegations that are arrayed right now! The corruption is in our face. He changed his trust, supposed to have been a blind trust, which it was not, he changed it so that he could withdraw profits personally at any time from facilities that are being paid by the United States. It's corrupt.”
“Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
“My family is number one in my life. I'll blow off writing or just about anything to make sure I take my son to preschool or watch him at his swimming lesson.”
“The real magic wand is the child's own mind.”

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