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"Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."
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"Attitude determines how the "inner battle" is won."
"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
"Remember that your attitude towards life determines life's attitude toward you. At any moment, you can choose to change everything for the better."
"If you want to fly high and go amazing places, your attitude is crucial."
"He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks."
"A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism."
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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
"I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that."
"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
"I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's go home."
"To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one."
"Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape."
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