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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the…
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed…
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world…
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous…
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Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing…
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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage,…
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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't…
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go…
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I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
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My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The…
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I…
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He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you…
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