The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it. ― Amanda Gorman

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Without couples, there can be no communities. Without friendship, trust, and intimacy between two, the bonds connecting three, or four, or four thousand, are easily severed. ― Jacob L. Wright

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

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You'd be amazed...at how few men have any women they can call upon to speak up for them, no matter how grave the consequences of remaining silent. ― Pearl Cleage

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I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

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Am I good enough? Yes, I am. — Michelle Obama

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The best revenge is to have enough self-worth not to seek it – Courtney Jarvis

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If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you. ― Rachel Beanland

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. - Mae West

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