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The thing about opinions is that they're pretty useless. They serve no purpose other than to express how you perceive the world which is, by and large, riddled with inexperience. Having a lack of personal experience with something is not a bad thing! Assuming that your opinions should be treated equal to or greater than the lived experiences of others is.

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When your fear of awkward silences overpowers your dislike of small talk. SIDEWALKS, EH? ~sweats profusely~

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If you find you’re having to silence yourself in order to maintain the comfort of those around you, it’s time to move on. You’re a human being with valid experiences and feelings. Not a decorative plant. 

— Nanea Hoffman sweatpantsandcoffee

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"For me that’s looked sitting in a church with community members, hashing out a situation that occurred with a group of young men in the community, who had been responsible for mugging, terrorizing really in some ways, an older white man in the neighborhood—a man who was now incredibly fearful as a result of what had happened to him. Figuring out: why would you do that? What led to this? What might we imagine other than turning to the cops in this instance? How do we resolve both the fear that you’ve now introduced in this person’s life and the pain and dispossession that you’ve been experiencing in your own? I guess that answer won’t satisfy people who want you to provide them with a solution, with the solution. Who immediately want to know: “how are we going to deal with the rapists and the murderers?” This is the question that always gets thrown at anybody who identifies as abolitionist—and my question back is “what are you doing right now about the rapists and the murderers?” That’s the first thing: Is what’s happening right now working for you? Are you feeling safer? Has the current approach ended rape and murder? The vast majority of rapists never see the inside of a courtroom, let alone get convicted and end up in prison. In fact, they end up becoming President. So the system you feel so attached to and that you seem invested in preserving is not delivering what you say you want, which is presumably safety and an end to violence. Worse than that it is causing inordinate additional harm. The logics of policing and prisons are not actually addressing the systemic causes and roots of violence." . . — Mariame Kaba “Towards the horizon of abolition: A conversation with Mariame Kaba” twitter: prisonculture

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Stop allowing people to consume the good parts of you. Don’t sacrifice a piece of yourself to appear whole. 

— Ramona Corlette @ramonacorlette

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Learning to know when some things just aren’t worth your time or energy can be incredibly helpful. Sometimes combating poor behavior is as simple as not giving it the time of day! Your time and energy is far more important than their bullshit. NEXT. 😋

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my boundaries weren’t created to offend you. they were created to honor me. 

— Dr. Crystal Jones @drcrystaljones

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At the Age of 18-Ode to Girls of Color At the age of 5 I saw how we always pick the flower swelling with the most color. The color distinguishes it from the rest, and tells us: This flower should not be left behind. But this does not happen in the case of colored girls. Our color makes hands pull back, and we, left to grow alone, stretching our petals to a dry sun. At the age of 12 I blinked in the majesty of the color within myself, blinded by the knowledge that a skinny black girl, a young brown teen, has the power to light Los Angeles all night, the radiance to heal all the scars left on this city's pavement. Why had this realization taken so long, When color pulses in all that is beauty and painting and human? You see, long ago, they told me that snakes and spiders have spots and vibrant bodies if they are poisonous. In other words, being of color meant danger, warning, 'do not touch'. At the age of 18 I know my color is not warning, but a welcome. A girl of color is a lighthouse, an ultraviolet ray of power, potential, and promise My color does not mean caution, it means courage my dark does not mean danger, it means daring, my brown does not mean broken, it means bold backbone from working twice as hard to get half as far. Being a girl of color means I am key, path, and wonder all in one body. At the age of 18 I am experiencing how black and brown can glow. And glow I will, glow we will, vibrantly, colorfully; not as a warning, but as promise, that we will set the sky alight with our magic. 

— Amanda Gorman @amandascgorman Called the 'next great figure of poetry in the US', at 19-years-old Amanda Gorman is a published author and the first ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States of America.

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"Papperlapapp" translates to "nonsense" in German 😍 It's typically used around children like saying "Baloney" or "Pish-posh!"

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“First and foremost, stop measuring your morality in comparison with the far right. You don’t get kudos for being more open minded than neo-nazis and white nationalists. In fact, many marginalized groups are more frustrated with white progressives than they are with bigoted conservatives. And this is nothing new. In 1963, while sitting in a jail cell in Alabama, Martin Luther King decided not to write about his jailers, but instead opted to drag “white moderates” who deemed his outspokenness “unwise and untimely.” Sound familiar? Liberals of the day felt King was being divisive. Today, liberals quote King out of context, in order to silence Black radicals; and the circle of life continues.”

— DiDi Delgado @thedididelgado from her article “Your Calls For Unity Are Divisive As F*ck”

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Fury is cloaked over my body. Buttoned to my neck. Brushing against my ankles. No. I will not undress. Prepared | Abyssinia Pla El @abyssinia.p

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Full proverbs are actually amazing? I also like "Great minds think alike, small minds rarely differ." 😁 Aw dang!

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"It’s brave to step out of your comfort zone, but it’s brave to own when you’re ready for that moment, too. Remember: Real growth comes from making decisions for yourself. And you have the power to decide when you’re ready for your next leap into the unknown." 

— Patricia Martin @patriciamartinwrites from her article “Why It’s Brave to Go at Your Own Pace”

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” — Assata Shakur

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The word “lämpimämpi” means “warmer” in Finnish and is one of my favourite Finnish words! SÖPÖ! Once you get used to all of the double consonants and vowels it’s a pretty cool language and NOT as difficult to learn as you might think 🤓

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"The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care." 

— Johanna Hedva | johannahedva.com