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We Are Not Free
Traci Chee
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“Gaman. The ability to hold your pain and bitterness inside you and not let them destroy you. To make something beautiful through your anger, or with your anger, and neither erase it nor let it define you. To suffer. And to rage. And to persevere.”
“We are not free. But we are not alone.”
“I want to believe in right and wrong. Here is what's right. Here is what isn't. Here is the line. Here is the question: If I got to war for America, if I kill for America, if I support an America that doesn't support me, and I supporting my oppressors? Am I killing their enemies so they can later kill me?”
“We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous.”
“See, we don't got liberty, we don't got property, but you better believe we've got the Great American Right to die for a country that doesn't want us.”
“Life’s not fair, but she doesn’t need it to be fair, because she can take anything life throws at her, and she won’t break.”
“History is not dead. We have not moved on. Like Minnow and many of my other characters, I love this country because it is my home, and my parents’ home, and my grandparents’ home, and because I was raised to believe in the opportunity and equality America promises, but this does not prevent me from seeing its problems, seeing all the ways it has failed its people again and again.”
“...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face.”
“You want and you want and you want, and no amount of wanting will return the moments you have lost and the people you have loved, but you have not lost so many pieces of yourself that you don’t want to give away one more.”
“If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done”
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