Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.

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"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Self-awareness

"I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

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"I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free."

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"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."

- Beauty and the Beast

Love

"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."

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Love

"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."

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"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."

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