I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

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History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama, attorney and former First Lady of the United States

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. - Emily Dickinson

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That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man. ― Charles Bukowski

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We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. ― W. C. Fields

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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

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