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thinking over and over and over of that clip from a maya angelou talk about the importance of knowing one another's history. no matter how brutal no matter how bleak no matter how despairing no matter anything because the only way through it is to go all the way through it. and the only way to build anything with one another is by having gone all the way through it because otherwise there is no connection. whats a connection worth that's built on ignorance? sustained by ignorance? "only equals can make friends" she says. only equals.

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Mary Oliver, "Blue Iris." Devotions

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Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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The Prestige, Hanif Abdurraqib

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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Yesterday he still looked in my eyes", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Bernard Comrie)

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Tiana Clark, from "Maybe in Another Life" [ID in ALT]

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What music would you listen to while traveling this road? 🎶

📸Nebraska

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I wasn’t supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn’t know how to make it right...no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life, and although I’d tried my best over the years, I simply didn’t know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.

Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

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Charles Bukowski, "hurry slowly," from Come On In!

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{Words by Lily Rain @lilyrainpoetry on Instagram}

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Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981) [ID'd]

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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. 

Carl Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. 

Franz Kafka, “Letters to Milena”

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And a friend told me it takes effort of a soul to be brave.

You're not courageous, you're brave.

And it hit me how endlessly strong I have been, pushing myself to hold on, picking myself up when it was impossible to come back to light.

We all are warriors inside and we need to be brave and appreciate it more ♡