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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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