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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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