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never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,
you are invisible.


Nayyirah Waheed

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NAYYIRAH WAHEED who
is invisible enough
to see you
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You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
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They need not do anything
<...
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A whisper can betray you.
DON'T EVER STOP.
They will always ...
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And here we see the invisible boy
In his lovely invisible house,
Feedin...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN BEWARE OF THOSE

Beware of those who are bitter,
For they will never allow you
T...
SUZY KASSEM my dear

show me i am with you . other way
show me you are with me . not seeing
LITYMUNSHI They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
IAIN M. BANKS (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER See
it was like this when
we waltz into this place.
A couple of papish cats
i...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test...
ANNE CARSON Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai.
On my shoulders I support the sky.
Trust me to kno...
ROBERT JORDAN And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
What's that?'
I...tru...
AVI what do you miss
do they miss you
when they're around
do they support your peace
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You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!

Te...
JASZ GILL who are you
really?

you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K Dear Fellow Human Being,

You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!

Te...
JASZ GILL If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
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write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you redden your cheeks
and blac...
KAMAND KOJOURI Listen.
Do you see
that you can’t hear snowfall?
Look.
Do you sense
that...
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When it fits you, it feels you.
When they see you, you s...
BHAVIK SARKHEDI I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
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If you really don't care.

Never talk about feelings
If they...
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2. Never trus...
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People assume you aren’t sick
unless they see the sickness on you...
EMM ROY I trust the red sun setting,

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On Monday morning I...
ELLEN WITTLINGER Do not avert your eyes.
It is important
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human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
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like it's the only thing you know how
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Luke 10

1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED O...
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Humans don't like that.
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CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags unde...
TRISTA MATEER DON'T SAY, DO


Do not say things
You think I want to hear.
Instead,
S...
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that keep alive on departure know that
you praise them; transient,
...
RAINER MARIA RILKE And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beau...
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Treat your relationship
As if you are growing
The most beautif...
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I am not sad for myself.
I am sad for the world,
I am sad ...
WORDIONS Didn’t anyone ask you where your parents are?"
"They asked. Especially about my parents."
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Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
ANA CASTILLO Just because
you feel lost
doesn't mean
that you are.
Sometimes you
just ha...
LALAH DELIA What do you can't do?
...
Be supportive?
...
You have never been supportive.. DEYTH BANGER WORTHY


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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
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and we pretend like we can't hear

They knock to tell us to ...
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not how others feel about you.
Do you trust...
RON W. RATHBUN Pretty

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I mean, people have been telling
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however
never talk about
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and nothing much
bothers ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Everyone says she’s mad.’
‘How do they know?’ I asked.
‘Because she’s differen...
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But it seems as soon as...
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are powerful
forces of nature.

they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN The Pretender

Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark an...
FOO FIGHTERS You
are the poem
I never knew
how to write
and this life
is the story
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON We must do what is necessary do help the victims of this terrible tragedy, but we should make sure i...
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I meet your eyes
you don't even see me
You hardly re...
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He sits down, tired,
and says to mom,
"I'm sorry you had to see t...
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you may never catch them
but if you follow them
they will lead...
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Forgive them anyway.

I...
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tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
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The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

...
HAFEZ I see your pain
as clearly as I feel my own.
I will share your burden
so you feel it...
KAMAND KOJOURI To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult n...
LOUIS KAHN Don’t pack out
______________

To some people, you make life bright
When you d...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR That sounds strangely little like "justice," Tisipohone jibed gently.

"On the contrary." ...
DAVID WEBER THE UNFORGIVEN


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...
SUZY KASSEM girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And recite to them the news of Abraham
When he said to his father and his people: What do you ...
QURAN I live there...

where the birds are infinite
everywhere

where they flee SANOBER KHAN You wanted to live," he says.

"You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue."

STEPHANIE KUEHN Walk

Million miles away
Your signal in the distance
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We look at it, and do not see it; it is invisible.
We listen to it, and d...
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If you do follow your bliss,
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t...
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The k...
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It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
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Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
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NAYYIRAH WAHEED expect sadness
like
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both,
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NAYYIRAH WAHEED but this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED put some honey and sea
water by your bed.
acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness
NAYYIRAH WAHEED leaving. doesn’t mean that you’ve left.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i have always been the woman of my dreams.
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NAYYIRAH WAHEED listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED go.
enjoy.
leave.
it was all about you, anyway.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind"
Nayyirah Waheed
NAYYIRAH WAHEED No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.


Read it ove...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and be...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED the first time the caregiver saw it on the child. they said ‘no. don’t you dare. you will not gr...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the l...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED poetry.
is the fire leaving my body.
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ABDUL WAHEED We are in limbo. What happens next?
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IMRAN WAHEED Even though the party has been open to intellectual debate and even though the prime minister said h...
IMRAN WAHEED There will be serious repercussions in terms of community relations if this ban goes ahead. Our memb...
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