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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
Fear
Culture
Never
Blindness
Color

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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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Imperfections create character.
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The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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