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Nicole S. Norton-Evans
Don't die trying to fulfill your dream

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”

Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Isn't it something that in Genesis, God makes a home for things before God makes the thing? Not the fish first but the sea. Not the bird first but the sky. Not the human first but the garden. I like to think of God hunched over in the garden, fingernails hugging the brown soil, mighty hands cradling mud like it's the last flame in a windstorm. A God who says, Not out of my own womb but out of this here dust will I make you. Place has always been the thing that made us. We cannot escape being formed by it.”

Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
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