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Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

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Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre

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safety is such a foundational need that if you grew up without it, it easily feels like the end of the road, but you need to dream and reach beyond it. there is so much more available to you. not everything that makes you uncomfortable is dangerous. what is not an outright threat might not be nourishing either. there is a limit to the wisdom of navigating life by comfort, you need to also be guided by what lets you expand into the fullest version of yourself

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Only Human

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Muddy Waters and his wife Geneva, Chicago, 1951. Photo Art Shay.

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F.V.V.A. - Femmes Voitures Villas Argent (1972)

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“Eternal Presence” by John Wilson

Photographed by David Schafer

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June Jordan teaching at the City College of New York, ca. 1967-1976 [Wendy's Subway, Brooklyn, NY. Courtesy June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]

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‏i made my choices according to ur actions

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Fundamentally the problem with people not using headphones in public when listening to their phones is I just don't want to hear all that