Language

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It is through language that we create our world, because it is nothing until we describe it. We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we describe.

Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity

Hope

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Hope is delicate suffering.

Amiri Baraka, African American poet,
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Born naked

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You're born naked, the rest is drag.

RuPaul Charles, Black Entertainer
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Perspective

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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Zora Neale Hurston,
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Good Spirit

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A good spirit is like a muscle. If you do not work and exercise it and massage it in a good and positive way it will eventually wither and die.

Brandon Astor Jones, Black Prisoner
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Memory

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Memory is a funny thing. If you want to bury it, it will be bottled up deeply inside. But if you decide to unleash it, it will open a floodgate and take over everything else.

Kien Nguyen, Asian American dentist
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Imagination

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Imagination brings you close to compassion.

Amy Tan,
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen