I want to be known as someone who got caught trying. Yup. Trying to make communities that didn't … - Majora Carter

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Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?. . . So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

Majora Carter

I want to be known as someone who got caught trying. Yup. Trying to make communities that didn't think much of themselves see themselves as fabulous, powerful, beautiful, loving, kind, members of this world. That's what I want people to say about me.

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