Some men became fathers mainly to show that they are not gay. Some, only to hide the fact that they are. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

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You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

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I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

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A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. ― Raymond Chandler

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Some parents sometimes use junk food as a babysitter. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved. ― bell hooks

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

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