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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Wisdom
"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
Relationship
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
Equality
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
Politics
"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
Writing
"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."
Creativity
"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."
Identity
"I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes."
Identity
"For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
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"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
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"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."
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