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"Carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe' You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough."
"Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you."
"Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit."
"Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger."
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