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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.