What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make … - David Whyte

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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

David Whyte

What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.

Enough, Hidden, Make, Sleep, Vitality

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To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

Forge, Identity, Invulnerable, Necessary, Reality, Weakness

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

Eye, Eyes, Firm, Live, Looks, Needs

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

Inspirational, Joy, Shout, Waiting

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

Care, Diminish, Doe, Mind, Precious

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Capable, Earth, Flowering, Species

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