"Our moment is too brief. Our bodies are too precious. And you are here now, and you must live — and there is so much out there to live for, not just in someone else’s country, but in your own home … The warmth of our particular world is beautiful, no matter how brief and breakable."
by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World & Me
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"You used to be alive, now you’re almost mythic."
by Alice Notley, from “The Book of the Dead,” Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
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