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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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Feeling Safe Writing
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
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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Concept Enemy Men World
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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