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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as...more

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Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stret...more

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I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand w...more

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Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We wanted to believe that it c...more