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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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