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"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
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"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
"If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
"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."
"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."
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."
"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."
"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."
"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
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