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Good talkers are only found in Paris.

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But where are the snows of yester year?

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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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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.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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