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I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen....more

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Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you ...more

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Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she trie...more

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No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

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A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing w...more