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“One special gift that is often overlooked is the spirit of perseverance.”

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“We have to walk around being perfect all the time just to be seen as human. Don't you ever get tired of being a symbol? Don't you ever just want to be human?”

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“When you hear stories from other people like you, you feel less alone. When you feel less alone, and like you have a community of people behind you, alongside you, I believe you can live a better life.”

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“My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.”

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Book:I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection

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“I had never said those words because there were no words left. My beloved and I were both exiles from language. Our love couldn't be expressed in words. Our love had been woven into the melodies rendered by his flute, and it was subsumed in the atoms of the air we breathed. It had been consecrated in this shrine. It had never been named. It was an unnamed thing that had remained unspoken, unuttered, unsaid. I did not need to name it when he could already hear it.”

Fiction Poc Culture Identity Diverse Characters

Book:This House of Clay and Water

Source: This House of Clay and Water

“Proof of concept or POC is the art of winning a ship-building contract by showing the working model of a paper boat”

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Book:Adventures of an Indian Techie

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“My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men.”

Gay Poc Queerness

Book:I'm Afraid of Men.

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“If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.”

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“I feel ashamed that black people are both the agents and the victims of this chaos, and I don't want to be thought of like that. But I'm also ashamed of myself for thinking I'm somehow better. The shame I feel in my guts, pulsing, spiraling; but also everything feels very far away. I'm black, but my black is different from that of those rioters on TV.”

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“while white women are an oppressed group, they still wield more power than any other group of women—including the power to oppress both men and women of color.”

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Book:Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot