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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Color
Fear
Culture
Never
Blindness

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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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