Inoperable Whining

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"The American dream is a term that is often used but often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that." -

Dorothy Dandrige

#HappyBirthdayQueen

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R.I.P Alex Trebek

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“The American dream belongs to all of us”. - Kamala Harris, 2020 Vice President-Elect 🇺🇸

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Come in, I’ve been expecting you

There’s a knock on the door

And love walks through

And lights the fire

Smiles a smile

As though love were going to stay a while

And the fire breathes

And weaves its spell

But then love runs out of lies to tell

For love is restless,

Love’s a flirt.

Love has places to go,

And people to hurt

So here’s the shovel to smother the flame

Tomorrow you’ll barely remember my name

And I’ll try to forget you, my dearest one

As a prisoner tries to forget the sun

For life holds no purpose,

Love holds no charms

Since I beheld you in another’s arms.

- ‘Til There Were You (1997)

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I won't be compromised no more

I can't be victimised no more

I just don't sympathize no more

Cuz now I understand

You just wanna use me

You say "love" then abuse me

You never thought you'd loose me

But how quickly we forget

That nothin' is for certain

You thought I'd stay here hurtin'

Your guilt trip's just not workin'

- Lauryn Hill

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"People with no imagination feed it with sex—the clown of love. They don’t know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that—softly, without props."

TONI MORRISON

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“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Hagar, don’t. It a bad word, ‘belong’. Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don’t wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. Hear me, Hagar?” He spoke to her as he would to a very young child. “You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he? You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can’t value you more than you value yourself.” — Rest in POWER Queen, Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019

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“Somebody, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour – and in the oddest places! – for the lack of it."

- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

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I'm keepin' down my body count. I'm finessin' like a trap bounce.

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“One day in your life, you'll remember the love you found here. You'll remember me somehow. Though you don't need me now. I will stay in your heart. And when things fall apart, you'll remember one day.”