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"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
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"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
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"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
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"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
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"Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book."
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
Unity
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
Resilience
"If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?"
Society
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
Inspirational
"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."
Character
"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
Wisdom
"When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich."
Creativity
"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
Literature
"This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before."
Gratitude
"I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use."
Writing
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