"I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken."

Identity, Black, Strength, Resilience, Heritage

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"I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Identity, Memory, Past, Truth

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Identity, Church, Army, Day

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Identity, Darkness, Death, Mental

"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Identity, Self, Thought, Perception

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Connection, Desire, Defiance

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Identity, Memory, Life, Editing, Truth

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

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"If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything."

Support, Pain, Life, Sharing, Strength

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

Devotion, Intensity, Love, Sacrifice

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

Support, Art, Creation, Space

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

Isolation, Solitude, Distance, People, Peace

"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, Love, Effort, Commitment

"Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more."

Affection, Growth, Validation, Recognition, Love

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

Critique, Religion, Madness, Society, Truth

"Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all."

Aspiration, Dream, Fear, Comfort, Belief

"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, Action, Protest, Presence

"You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you."

Freedom, Oppression, Change, Truth