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Why try to change who you were born to be and force yourself into who you think everyone will find more beautiful? Society has failed people to the point where they feel they cannot like themselves in the skin they were born in.

— Luvvie Ajayi

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If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

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Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

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