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“Any move you make Moves you. Whether craved or feared. Any change changes you.”

Fear Growth Change Progress Movement Adaptation Craving Make A Move

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“We need each other more than ever. We cannot get through it alone, find the hope to move forward and do all we need to do alone, find the joy and beauty alone to have the incentive to find the hope.”

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“If you can't find an answer? If you don't know what to do?... Make a move.”

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“Do you see it? Do you get it? Are you clear on What's going on? White women are subjugated (as human beings) even when elevated (as muses and objects of desire). Black men are infantilized intellectually (to diminish power) and aged-up physically (to increase threat). Black women are subjugated, infantilized, and aged-up, expected to selflessly carry everyone else. Immigrants and people of color are supposed to dedicate their lives to the illusion--the lottery-- of the American Dream, by actually feeding the American Machine.”

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“The clocks go forward. The steps go forward. The heart goes forward. Again. Again.”

Heart Progress Forward Again

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“I remember just after 9/11/2001 people were putting up American flags-- stand with America against its enemies was the prevailing feeling-- and all I could think was "that's the feeling that got us here." It seemed to me that empathy for our ostensible enemies was the only way we could move forward to something better. I know that's true now.”

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“We know most often the only way to the other side is through. And so I persist. Persist persist. Persist persist persist. And that is my habit. To persist. Can be good for forward movement. Doesn't make it easy to let go.”

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“...whatever we do whatever way we move forward there will be damage carried from all previous rows and columns in this mathematical computation we make, all the multi-configured additions and subtractions in language America, in all bases, particularly I'm thinking about at the moment 1492, 1776, 1861, 1867, 1980, 2016, 2020.”

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“Some parts of us all are boulders on the shoreline. Some parts of us all are racing across the waters. Some parts of us all wax and wane with the tides. It's hard to find one's footing, to keep one's footing, at times like this. And still and still you can't walk the road without finding dry land.”

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“We are not the only country that becomes way more progressive or regressive depending on who gets into office. This is the way of the world. Your vote matters. Whatever your reasons, whatever your objections, you're not a part of our political process unless you vote. All politics is local, all politics is national, all politics is global.”

Voice Democracy Progress Constitution Voting Republic Now Regression We The People Get Out The Vote

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“Little things over time make big differences, as true for depletion as it is for progress.”

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“Control will kill you. Awareness will save you. And acceptance is part of awareness (Acceptance as in 'this is what it is' not as in 'this is the way it will always be'). Why? And why is acceptance the second step toward change? Because acceptance of where you are is necessary in order to move anywhere else.”

Reality Growth Change Progress Acceptance Self Awareness Meaning Control Awareness Not Control

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“Beauty all around us. Disaster all around us. Contradictory co-existing realities all around us-- and always, most definitely, inside us. But that is nothing new. That has always been true. So tell me, tell me, What are we going to do?”

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“A dream you dream together is not always a reality, but it is definitely the first necessary step towards making it one.”

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“Autumn, when, ultimately, all illusions fall away and are cast aside, leaving the trees and hills and roadways--the very earth itself--laid bare and open, stark realities fully revealed. You cannot move forward in the real world if you cannot see the real world. You cannot find the beauty in the world if all you see is its adornment.”

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