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This line points out the differences of perspective between people. One person’s atrocity is another’s “no big deal”

“They use words like "casualties" to speak of murder.”

-Aracelis Girmay

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I Am Me

 Who I am is not determined by the color of my skin

It is not decided before I am born

Who I am changes as I experience the world

 The person I was

Is not

The person I am

 I am my experiences

I am my own person

I am not just what you see

You do not determine who I am

I Am Me

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They do not lose their children to this war. They do not lose their houses & their streets

Arroz Poetica- Aracelis Girmay  (via emilychucta)

People who do not experience the type of pain that the less fortunate do don't always realize how lucky they are

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a god who spits blood from tuberculosis and doesn’t even have enough for bus fare

Francisco X. Alarcon (via reimer2367)

To think that the higher power could know what it feels like to be at a low point in humanity is comforting. 

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My enemies ride jets to parties. They are not tied up in pens in Guantanamo Bay. They are not young children throwing rocks. My enemies eat meats & vegetables at tables in white houses where candles blaze, cast shadows of crosses, & flowers.

Aracelis Girmay (via reimer2367)

Sometimes you have to look below the surface that is shown to the world to see the truth that is buried beneath. 

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more the idea of the flame than the flame

Nick Flynn

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I will not send George Bush rice, worked for rice from my own kitchen where it sits in a glass jar & I am transfixed by the thousands of beautiful pieces

Aracelis Girmay

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I want a more godlike god

Francisco X. Alarcon

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Never claimed he'd rise again never asked us to eat his flesh

Nick Flynn

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The beautiful thing is that a group of men began to stand behind me like a fleet of bodyguards, she says, like newly found uncles and brothers.

Claudia Rankine "from Citizen"

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I demand a war to bring the dead boy back, no matter what his name is this time.

Danez Smith, "not an elegy for Mike Brown"

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9. phoenix who forgets to un-ash

Danez Smith, "alternate names for black boys"

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you want to eat me right out of these jeans and into something a little cheaper

Franny Choi, "To The Man..."

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Look, I'm not exactly questioning your sexuality, but have you ever hit a woman?

Ross Gay, "Some Instructions"

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He will tell you the distance between heartbreak and rage

Ross Gay "Within Two Weeks"

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Why would anyone leave their native land?

Terrance Hayes "What I Am"

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This is a quote that represents the way a lot of parents feel. They want to protect us from the harsh realities of the world.

"My parents would have had me believe there was no such thing as race"

-Terrance Hayes