"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."

Childhood, Joy, Innocence, Identity

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"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."

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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Childhood, Comfort, Nostalgia, Happiness

"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."

John Green, American Author

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"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."

John Green, American Author

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"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them."

Devotion

"I will help build your museum. When you run out of space to hang your work. You can hang your work in mine."

Support

"I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all."

Isolation

"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."

Creation

"There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them."

Critique

"The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil."

Activism

"Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors."

Critique

"I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent."

Writing

"I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that."

Legacy

"The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission."

Management