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Tommy Orange Quote: “Every day is a loop. Life tries the same as we try with music. Every day is the sun rising, and the sun going down, and the sleep we must sleep. I even like sleep and dreaming now. Every day is life convincing us it’s not a loop. Addiction is that way too.”

101. “Every day is a loop. Life tries the same as we try with music. Every day is the sun rising, and the sun going down, and the sleep we must sleep. I even like sleep and dreaming now. Every day is life convincing us it’s not a loop. Addiction is that way too.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Normal has for too long meant average white.”

102. “Normal has for too long meant average white.”

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Tommy Orange Quote: “Some would call it spite, for women it will be called spite and being vindictive; while injured men receive their justice and pass out their vengeance, women will be called petty and catty, won’t get to feel the honor a word like revenge endows upon men.”

103. “Some would call it spite, for women it will be called spite and being vindictive; while injured men receive their justice and pass out their vengeance, women will be called petty and catty, won’t get to feel the honor a word like revenge endows upon men.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “I had a family now and the drinking was behind me. I’d lived enough life, almost died enough times to know when a good thing came along, a thing you didn’t know could fill you right up, which only when it filled you let you know there’d been a hole in you before.”

104. “I had a family now and the drinking was behind me. I’d lived enough life, almost died enough times to know when a good thing came along, a thing you didn’t know could fill you right up, which only when it filled you let you know there’d been a hole in you before.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “The point was that maybe humans thought they were exceptional but they were maybe never anything more than animals, doing anything more than animaling.”

105. “The point was that maybe humans thought they were exceptional but they were maybe never anything more than animals, doing anything more than animaling.”

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Tommy Orange Quote: “And that being made to take a name like they’d wanted, being made to become the kind of person that they wanted us to be, it was just like that woman’s monster, was just like what she had Dr. Victor Frankenstein make in the book, that was why he chose the name Victor, he was the man making the monster by agreeing to take their kind of name and living life the way white men like Pratt demanded.”

106. “And that being made to take a name like they’d wanted, being made to become the kind of person that they wanted us to be, it was just like that woman’s monster, was just like what she had Dr. Victor Frankenstein make in the book, that was why he chose the name Victor, he was the man making the monster by agreeing to take their kind of name and living life the way white men like Pratt demanded.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Maybe we’ll be running our whole lives. Just keep moving. That would be okay. We’ll have strong legs, keen awareness, and big hearts, keeping ourselves and each other going like we belong to that one-day distant future, when we can look back and say this is how we made it, despite everything.”

107. “Maybe we’ll be running our whole lives. Just keep moving. That would be okay. We’ll have strong legs, keen awareness, and big hearts, keeping ourselves and each other going like we belong to that one-day distant future, when we can look back and say this is how we made it, despite everything.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Everyone thinks kids don’t get what a world is, what this world is. But we feel it all. We want nothing more than to make-believe belief can be enough, and when we realize it isn’t, when you make kids believe belief isn’t enough, we take it all in under hooded eyes.”

108. “Everyone thinks kids don’t get what a world is, what this world is. But we feel it all. We want nothing more than to make-believe belief can be enough, and when we realize it isn’t, when you make kids believe belief isn’t enough, we take it all in under hooded eyes.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “One thing I want you to understand is that your suffering does not make you special. There’s a voice inside everyone who suffers that says, no one else has it like this, and so much selfish action comes from listening to that voice.”

109. “One thing I want you to understand is that your suffering does not make you special. There’s a voice inside everyone who suffers that says, no one else has it like this, and so much selfish action comes from listening to that voice.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Hannah wanted to have children, and I wasn’t necessarily against it, but didn’t really believe in the future.”

110. “Hannah wanted to have children, and I wasn’t necessarily against it, but didn’t really believe in the future.”

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Tommy Orange Quote: “Your dying mother could not possibly have known how apt the name Victoria was for the year you were born. In 1924 the American Indian Wars will be declared over after a hundred and thirteen years. Any war that long becomes victorious by virtue of simply ending, has no winners or losers only what’s left, what could survive so much war is made more than war by virtue of surviving it.”

111. “Your dying mother could not possibly have known how apt the name Victoria was for the year you were born. In 1924 the American Indian Wars will be declared over after a hundred and thirteen years. Any war that long becomes victorious by virtue of simply ending, has no winners or losers only what’s left, what could survive so much war is made more than war by virtue of surviving it.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “To be human was to struggle, and to be a good human was to struggle gracefully, which required first being deep in the struggle, only from there could one transcend the struggle in a meaningful way.”

112. “To be human was to struggle, and to be a good human was to struggle gracefully, which required first being deep in the struggle, only from there could one transcend the struggle in a meaningful way.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “I’m being asked to understand that with some people you love, they just won’t end up being a part of your life. I’m being asked a question that it seems I can answer only by living.”

113. “I’m being asked to understand that with some people you love, they just won’t end up being a part of your life. I’m being asked a question that it seems I can answer only by living.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Christianity is so weird, but everyone pretends like it isn’t.”

114. “Christianity is so weird, but everyone pretends like it isn’t.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “A bad thing doesn’t stop happening to you just because it stops happening to you. In therapy this is called trauma.”

115. “A bad thing doesn’t stop happening to you just because it stops happening to you. In therapy this is called trauma.”

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Tommy Orange Quote: “It’s worse when they know what they want and they’re hungry for it, white men in this country, they come to take everything, even themselves, they have taken so much they have lost themselves in the taking, and what will be left of such a nation once they are done?”

116. “It’s worse when they know what they want and they’re hungry for it, white men in this country, they come to take everything, even themselves, they have taken so much they have lost themselves in the taking, and what will be left of such a nation once they are done?”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “All those years ago. They seemed so good. You could say that about years you couldn’t get back, wish for normal when normal seemed to be taken away, even if normal was never all that good in the first place.”

117. “All those years ago. They seemed so good. You could say that about years you couldn’t get back, wish for normal when normal seemed to be taken away, even if normal was never all that good in the first place.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “As for your mother’s side, as for your whiteness, there’s too much and not enough there to know what to do with. You’re from a people who took and took and took and took. And from a people taken. You were both and neither.”

118. “As for your mother’s side, as for your whiteness, there’s too much and not enough there to know what to do with. You’re from a people who took and took and took and took. And from a people taken. You were both and neither.”

— Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange Quote: “Beware of the man who does not talk and the dog who does not bark. – Cheyenne proverb.”

119. “Beware of the man who does not talk and the dog who does not bark. – Cheyenne proverb.”

— Tommy Orange

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