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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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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
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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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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
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