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"DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem."
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"The worst way to drown is in mainstream."
"To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing."
"No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary."
"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."
"Dare to be different."
"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."
"Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing."
"Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity."
"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
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"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."
"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society."
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."
"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."
"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
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