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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.
The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.