"Write at the edges of the day."

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"When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me."

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"Beauty was not simply something to behold, it was something one could do."

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"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."

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"Guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness."

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"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."

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"In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it."

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"God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing."

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"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing."

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"Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be."

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"No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along."

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