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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

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Love is never any better than the lover.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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 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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All important things are hard.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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