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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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