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you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be.


AVA.

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T.R. CORDóN

More AVA.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.
AVA. remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of l...
AVA. i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full.
AVA. i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.
AVA. i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first, AVA. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA. love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i ...
AVA. there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separat...
AVA. and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.
AVA. i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA. do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their lo...
AVA. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA. i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA. hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.
AVA. i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA. some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling.
AVA. you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me.
AVA. i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.
AVA. we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA. you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA. we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thi...
AVA. the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.

the hurti...
AVA. i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.
AVA everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA. i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun.
AVA I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
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AVA GARDNER How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to ...
AVA DELLAIRA Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
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AVA DELLAIRA And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going ...
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AVA DUVERNAY A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act,...
AVA DUVERNAY When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
AVA GARDNER Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.
AVA GARDNER When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull....
AVA GARDNER But to me, they were beautiful, like their own constellation.
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AVA DUVERNAY But you said you love me. You don’t just leave after that.
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AVA DUVERNAY I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able ...
AVA DUVERNAY I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who co...
AVA DUVERNAY Emptiness felt like a living thing. A parasite growing in the center of your chest, somewhere behind...
AVA JAE The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presenta...
AVA DUVERNAY The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomo...
AVA DUVERNAY The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go.
AVA HARRISON I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years...
AVA DUVERNAY My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films...
AVA DUVERNAY Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-right...
AVA DUVERNAY I think it's like when you lose something so close to you, it's like losing yourself.
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AVA DELLAIRA You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
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AVA DELLAIRA she walked like she belonged in a better world,
AVA DELLAIRA Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that...
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AVA DELLAIRA I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I...
AVA DUVERNAY If your dream is only about you, it's too small.
AVA DUVERNAY There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom...
AVA DUVERNAY It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
AVA DUVERNAY I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in l...
AVA DUVERNAY What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. Yo...
AVA DUVERNAY All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my ha...
AVA DELLAIRA Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
AVA RICHARDSON I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us...
AVA DELLAIRA The time is not always now for everything.
AVA RICHARDSON Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the to...
AVA GARDNER You usually find that this is the most romantic sex, because it starts out with long, luscious kisse...
DR AVA CADELL When you know you're never going to see someone again, you want to leave her wanting you - and you'l...
DR AVA CADELL There's a correlation between a woman's bottom lip and her vagina. Sucking gently on her lip will ma...
DR AVA CADELL