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“Integrity, America. You lack integrity. The degree of distance between how we want to see ourselves and how we are is enormous. Integrity. Individually and as a people. We lack integrity. As an individual, I have long known that the only hope for integrity is not only the effort expended to live up to our word, but the willingness to own how and where we have not, and to hold ourselves accountable for the consequences of that.”

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“Sixth grade, I remembermy best friend Wendy whose parents were fighting, harshly, loudly, and we sat on the curb outside so she wouldn't have to hear it, and she cried, believing her world was falling apart. I made up a kind-of game: to everything she would say, I would respond "Is that a fact or an opinion?" and she had to figure it out and say it outloud-- we played it for hours, ending up laughing but she also began to separate what was actually happening inside the house from her feelings about it and her fears. I feel like I'm still playing "Fact or Opinion" in my writing, in the world-- with family, friends, and, of course, myself. Wish I could play it with our governmental representatives, our institutions, our courts.”

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“She sat next to him, looking into his eyes, with questions she knew answers herself. “Do you think we have a future?” she asked. “I am not sure,” said the boy holding her hand graciously and pressed them on his cheeks, “but we do have a past, and it is just because of that past that I want to be with you. The future is just a commodity of past actions that gives shape to future events. Future is never independent.” “You are dreaming something out of reality.” “And you deny that fact that it is also your dream.” “We often see dreams in our reality, but there is too much purpose in reality” “Doesn’t it depend on the way we create our reality?” “But before that, you must know if your reality is approved by others” “We all have different reality? “The question is, why should we?”

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