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"I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind."
— Tired, by Langston Hughes
"There's a big difference between a character to look at & a character to believe in."
– @GailSimone
"I realized that I didn't have control over my life, but I did have control over the stories I could tell."
– Issa López | @IssitaLopez
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few."
– Shunryu Suzuki / 鈴木 俊隆, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" (1973)
"When we fight for diverse books we're really just fighting for a more honest literature. Books that tell the truth."
– Daniel José Older / @djolder
“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”
― Aminatta Forna / @aminattaforna