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Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.

Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.
– Roxane Gay

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  2. We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. – Steven C Rockefeller
  3. If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human. – Roxane Gay
  4. Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven’t realized that todayis tomorrow’s nostalgia. – Zeena Schreck
  5. No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. – Rabih Alameddine
  6. I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill – Roxane Gay
  7. Love your friends’ kids even if you don’t want or like children. Just do it. – Roxane Gay
  8. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
  9. … just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do. – Roxane Gay
  10. This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive. – Roxane Gay
  11. Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child. – Roxane Gay
  12. Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books. – Roxane Gay
  13. I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them. – Roxane Gay
  14. When you can’t find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example. – Roxane Gay
  15. Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little. – Roxane Gay
  16. On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman’s choices should not merit measure. – Roxane Gay
  17. To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance. – Roxane Gay
  18. Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status – Roxane Gay
  19. I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties. – Roxane Gay
  20. I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure-”it’s pressure release. – Roxane Gay
  21. Fitzgerald has charm. It’s a silly word, but it’s an exact word for me. I like ‘The Great Gatsby’ and it’s sad, gay nostalgia. – Truman Capote
  22. History will remember him as a savage, but that’s because we write the histories. – AH Septimius
  23. There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past. – Deborah L Norris
  24. …The human mind is a complicated place…We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don’t even know we’re holding on to. – Corey Ann Haydu
  25. Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
  26. The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia. – Paul Evdokimov
  27. Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. – Radhe Maa
  28. Whenever you feel insignificant,remember that you can makea significant differencein the lives of others,particularly the less fortunate. – Jeffrey A White
  29. Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  30. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  31. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  32. Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past. – Shannon L Alder
  33. Nostalgia is your brain’s way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past – Steve Maraboli
  34. Nostalgia is your brain’s way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past – Steve Maraboli
  35. Nostalgia is your brain’s way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past. – Steve Maraboli
  36. History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post. – Kent Alan Robinson
  37. Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled. – Richard Branson
  38. Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth. – Evan DG Fraser
  39. I’m of the opinion and quite certain that our ‘personal histories’ with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures – R Alan Woods
  40. When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets. – Carmen Posadas

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