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#1

“The modern church encourages African-American women to keep others鈥� vineyards, while neglecting their own, in two ways: by venerating Black women鈥檚 performance of strength and depending upon women鈥檚 labor and financial support to maintain the church, without providing equal opportunity for Black women to exercise their gifts in ministerial leadership; and by distorting Scripture in a way that encourages suffering and self-sacrifice among Black women.”
― Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength

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#2

“Grief, I鈥檝e learned, is really just love. It鈥檚 all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Jamie Anderson

tags: grief-and-loss

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#3

“Will I be something?
Am I something?
And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be.”
― Anis Mojgani

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#4

“I dream too much and I don鈥檛 write enough and I鈥檓 trying to find god everywhere.”
― Anis Mojgani

tags: dream, god, write

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#5

“Always remember that the people are not fighting for ideas, nor for what is in men鈥檚 minds. The people fight and accept the sacrifices demanded by the struggle in order to gain material advantages, to live better and in peace, to benefit from progress, and for the better future of their children. National liberation, the struggle against colonialism, the construction of peace, progress and independence are hollow words devoid of any significance unless they can be translated into a real improvement of living conditions.”
― Am铆lcar Cabral, Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Am铆lcar Cabral

tags: decolonization, liberation, struggle

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#6

“In combating racism we do not make progress if we combat the people themselves. We have to combat the causes of racism. If a bandit comes to my house and I have a gun, I cannot shoot the shadow of the bandit; I have to shoot the bandit. Many people lose energy and effort , and make sacrifices combating shadows. We have to combat the material reality that produces the shadow.”
― Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Am铆lcar Cabral

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#7

“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”
― Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Am铆lcar Cabral

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#8

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: betray, betrayal, bullies, bully, bullying, burn, cheat, cheater, corrupt, cynical, cynics, dark, darkness, hateful, hostile, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, liar, light, lying, malevolent, malicious, negative, negative-people, negativity, pessimistic, pessimists, spiteful, toxic, toxic-people, toxicity, vengeful, vicious, vindictive

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#9

“It was in those moments that I became one of them, one of the leavers. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, I thought. It felt powerful. I finally felt in control. Is this how it felt to all the others. the leavers, the takers, the breakers? I became what they were. I could disappear. -The Art of Leaving”
― Shilo Niziolek, Broad River Review

tags: control, disappear, leaving, powerful, relationships, toxic

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#10

“Positive thinking is a coping mechanism, an automatic coping mechanism. It is void of life. Feeling and experiencing the realness of what is actually happening are the essences of being alive. Feeling, connecting, reacting to the flow-- this is all living. Positive thinking happens in the head, meanwhile, it denies the heart its authentic, genuine feelings. Not only does it have the potential to rob you of real and deeper connection which is ultimately necessary to living a passionate and compassionate life; but it even has the potential to cut you off from reality itself. A mask that you put on your face, other people's faces, and throw over everything around you. We do not become positive by refusing to be real. We become positive people by really living, really feeling, and really rising above anything that would threaten to sink us. You can't even see what threatens to sink you if you refuse to acknowledge that it's even there. Why did Titanic sink? Someone refused to see the icebergs.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: denialism, fake-positivity, guidance, life-and-living, toxic-positivity, truth, truth-of-life, warning-quotes

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#11

“People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.”
― Michael Specter

tags: anti-science, atheism, denialism, fundamentalism, michael-specter, science, skepticism

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#12

“Like any pseudo scientific thinking, denialism begins with a desired conclusion. Rather than supporting a controversial or rejected claim, like many pseudo sciences, denialists maintain that a generally accepted scientific or historical claim is not true, usually for ideological reasons. Denialists then engage in what is called motivated reasoning, rationalizing why the undesired claim is not true or at least not proven. They therefore are working backwards from their desired conclusion, filling in justifications for what they believe, rather than following logic and evidence wherever it leads.”
― Steven Novella

tags: denialism

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#13

“Consider a narrow deep river valley below a high dam, such that if the dam burst, the resulting flood of water would drown people for a long distance downstream.

When attitude pollsters ask people downstream of the dam how concerned they are about the dam鈥檚 bursting, it鈥檚 not surprising that fear of a dam burst is lowest far downstream, and increases among residents increasingly close to the dam.

Surprisingly, though, when one gets within a few miles of the dam, where fear of the dam鈥檚 breaking is highest, as you then get closer to the dam the concern falls off to zero! That is, the people living immediately under the dam who are certain to be drowned in a dam burst profess unconcern.

That is because of psychological denial: the only way of preserving one鈥檚 sanity while living immediately under the high dam is to deny the finite possibility that it could burst.”
― Jared Diamond

tags: denial, denialism

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#14

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: denial, honesty, truth

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#15

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths

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#16

“To regret one鈥檚 own experiences is to arrest one鈥檚 own development. To deny one鈥檚 own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one鈥檚 own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: denial, life, soul, spiritual-development, truth

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#17

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.

The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: abuse, atrocities, consciousness, crime, denial, dissociation, dissociative, freud, ghosts, graves, healing, horrible, humanity, memory, mind, murder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, power, psychological-trauma, psychology, ptsd, rape, recovered-memory, recovery, repressed-memory, restoration, sigmund-freud, society, society-denial, survivors, trauma, trauma-therapy, truth, unspeakable, victims, violations, wisdom

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#18

“my mother
is pure radiance.

she is the sun
i can touch
and kiss

and hold
without
getting burnt.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: deep-love, family, family-love, mother, mothers-day, mothers-love, sun, sunshine, warm, warmth

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#19

“From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gives you life
Shows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.
And from seed to dust
There is ONE soul above all others --
That you must always show patience, respect, and trust
And this woman is your mother.
And when your soul departs your body
And your deeds are weighed against the feather
There is only one soul who can save yours
And this woman is your mother.
And when the heart of the universe
Asks her hair and mind,
Whether you were gentle and kind to her
Her heart will be forced to remain silent
And her hair will speak freely as a separate entity,
Very much like the seaweed in the sea --
It will reveal all that it has heard and seen.

This woman whose heart has seen yours,
First before anybody else in the world,
And whose womb had opened the door
For your eyes to experience light and more --
Is your very own MOTHER.
So, no matter whether your mother has been cruel,
Manipulative, abusive, mentally sick, or simply childish
How you treat her is the ultimate test.
If she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right way
With simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness.
And always remember,
That the queen in the Creator's kingdom,
Who sits on the throne of all existence,
Is exactly the same as in yours.
And her name is,
THE DIVINE MOTHER.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: abusive, beauty, birth, cherish, childish, children, creation, divine, divine-mother, dust, eulogy, eulogy-mother, existence, feather, female, feminism, fertility, gentle, goddess, grandmother, hair, heart, hearts, kindness, kingdom, life, loss-of-mother, matriarch, mind, mom, mommy, mother, mother-earth, mother-poem, mother-poetry, motherhood, mothering, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-love, mothers-poem, name, parents, poem, poetry, pregnancy, queen, royalty, seaweed, seed, silent, sisters, soul, suzy-kassem, thighs, treasure, treatment, universe, value, woman, woman-power, woman-rights, womanhood, women

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#20

“You loved me before seeing me;

You love me in all my mistakes;

You will love me for what I am.”
― Luffina Lourduraj

tags: mother, mothers-love

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#21

“The debt between a child and her mother could never be repaid, like running a foot race against someone fifteen miles ahead of you. What hope did you have of catching up? It didn't matter how many Mother's Day cards you drew, how many cliches and vows of devotions you put inside them. You could tell her she was your favorite parent, wink like you were co-conspirators, fill her in on every trivial detail of your life. None of it was enough. It had taken me years to figure this out: you would never love your mother as much as she loved you. She had formed memories of you since you were a poppy seed in her belly. You didn't begin making your own memories until three, four, five years old? She'd had a running start. She had known you before you even existed. How could we compete with that? We couldn't. We accepted that our mothers held their love over us, let them parade it around like a flashy trinket, because their love was superior to ours.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

tags: mother-daughter, mothers-love

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#22

“The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.”
― ann kidd taylor, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

tags: inspirational, mother-daughter

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#23

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving

tags: mother

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#24

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
― George Washington

tags: mother

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#25

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don鈥檛 mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don鈥檛 we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
― Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow

tags: children, hurt, knives, mother

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#26

“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: family, humor, mother

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#27

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

tags: love, mother, truth

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#28

“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

tags: arms, mother

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#29

“May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: called-of-god, god, mother, sacred-callings, sacred-responsibilities

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#30

“MOTHER IS WATER

I wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your feet with my tears,
For I know I have caused you
So much heartache, frustration and despair 鈥�
Throughout my youthful years.
I wish I could give you
The remainder of my life
To add to yours,
Or simply erase
The lines on your face,
And mend all that has been torn.
For next to God,
You are the fire
That has given light
To the flame in each of my eyes.
You are the fountain
That nourished my growth,
And from your chalice 鈥�
Gave me life.
Without the wetness of your love,
The fragrance of your water,
Or the trickling sounds of
Your voice,
I shall always feel
thirsty.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: a-mother-s-love, anoint, chalice, daughter, despair, eulogy, eyes, fire, flowers, forgiveness, fragrance, frustration, god, growth, guidance, heartache, life, loss-of-a-mother, loving, loving-mother, madre, maman, mer, mere, mommy, mother, mother-poem, mother-s-day, mother-s-love, motherhood, mothering, motherly-love, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-poem, nurture, pain, parenting, poem, poetry, protect, regret, shower-your-head-with-flowers, son, sounds, suzy-kassem, tears, thirsty, voice, water, wish, yearning, youth

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