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> [“Loss is a straightforward equation: 2 - 1 = 1. A person is there, then she is not. But a loss is beyond numbers, as well as sadness, and depression, and guilt, and ecstasy, and hope, and nostalgia - all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/loss-is-a-straightforward-equation-2-1-1-a-person-is-there-then-she/)

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## More by Zinzi Clemmons

> [“Loss is a straightforward equation: 2 - 1 = 1. A person is there, then she is not. But a loss is beyond numbers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/loss-is-a-straightforward-equation-2-1-1-a-person-is-there-then-she/)

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> [“She comes to me in snatches - I remember pieces of her laugh, the look she gave when she was upset. Sometimes I sniff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/she-comes-to-me-in-snatches-i-remember-pieces-of-her-laugh-the-look/)

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> [“Oftentimes I find myself, when we are fighting over the bills, or when he chews his food too loudly or laughs at the wrong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/oftentimes-i-find-myself-when-we-are-fighting-over-the-bills-or-when/)

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> [“If I look long enough at a flower, I can see the color of her cheeks in the stigma.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/if-i-look-long-enough-at-a-flower-i-can-see-the-color-of-her-cheeks/)

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> [“But as I stood there with those mathematics in hand, the weight of the moment on me, I said nothing. And when I tried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/but-as-i-stood-there-with-those-mathematics-in-hand-the-weight-of-the/)

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> [“I don't sleep for two night. Instead I am wide awake and tossing. Each day I feel less like the person I was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/i-don-t-sleep-for-two-night-instead-i-am-wide-awake-and-tossing-each/)

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> [“I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/i-realized-that-that-was-how-heartbreak-occurred-your-heart-wants/)

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> [“Yes, there is that dark, terrifying loneliness that scares me, but I am acquainted with fear. If I stay inside it long enough, root…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/yes-there-is-that-dark-terrifying-loneliness-that-scares-me-but-i-am/)

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> [“Early on I felt I had nothing to offer Dean except my body. He was a full person and I knew that I wasn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/early-on-i-felt-i-had-nothing-to-offer-dean-except-my-body-he-was-a/)

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> [“This was the paradox: How would I ever heal from losing the person who healed me? The question was so enormous that I could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/this-was-the-paradox-how-would-i-ever-heal-from-losing-the-person-who/)

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> [“His apartment is on the top floor of a three-story building in King. The landlady is an old Rusian woman who smokes at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/his-apartment-is-on-the-top-floor-of-a-three-story-building-in-king/)

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> [“The pilot came on the loudspeaker to tell us we had been hit by lightning. Despite our fright, no damage had been done to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/the-pilot-came-on-the-loudspeaker-to-tell-us-we-had-been-hit-by/)

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> [“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/i-ve-often-thought-that-being-a-light-skinned-black-woman-is-like/)

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> [“Why (and to whom) is it appealing to think you are in another city besides the one, in Africa, that you are in?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/why-and-to-whom-is-it-appealing-to-think-you-are-in-another-city/)

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> [“Her disease only reinforced how the world saw us: not black or white, not American or African, not poor or rich. We were confined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zinzi-clemmons/her-disease-only-reinforced-how-the-world-saw-us-not-black-or-white/)

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