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I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people wh...more

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I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing wa...more

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I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ours...more

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work ...more

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I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're u...more

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Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to e...more

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You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right- that his judgement and o...more

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What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You've...more