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Write at the edges of the day.

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Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

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It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

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From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak ...more

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I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of D...more

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Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

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You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.

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I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my should...more

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…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

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I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want ...more

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We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I’m fifty and I don’t know nothing. What about it? ...more

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Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

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Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

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I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, y...more