There is no monster, just a beautiful day

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

—Jean-Michel Basquiat  (via ikilledjackjohnson)

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Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

— Virginia Satir (via thesearepeopleyouknow)

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I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

—Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebookishdark)

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Love gets so sexualized in our world. We start to feel like there is no love outside of romantic love. There are lots of wonderful love stories that have nothing to do with sex or romance, and I guess I wanted to write one of those.

—John Green (on writing Will Grayson, Will Grayson with David Levithan)

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