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Toni Morrison in 2008 [Damon Winter/The New York Times]

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“I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest.”

— Farah Gabdon

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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

— James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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Untitled © Peter Solarz

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1994

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Fatoumata Diawara

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Leonard Bernstein at Chopin’s piano in Warsaw

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i’ve known a life where canvases have crashed into one another. where god broke himself from the eyes of humanity. where hummingbirds sipped nectar. and snakes. poison. i’ve known a life that is hard yet beautiful. fading. and constant. a life that is... bound. holy. and free. | duality ii

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remember the last love.

Book: Golden Milk by C.J. Dexter