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Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them…
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality…
I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be…
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels…
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The…
Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all…

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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls. — Phyllis McGinley
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds. — Bob Hayes
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe… — Richard Rorty
I think there's a knowingness in my face. — Rebecca De Mornay
To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is… — Al Jarreau
The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty… — Alexander Shulgin
The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The… — L. Ron Hubbard
I urge you all, fervently I urge you, to state unto the universe, unto the multiverse: I AM, I AM, I AM!… — St. Germain
Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete. — Fran Lebowitz
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal… — Shakti Gawain
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on… — L. Ron Hubbard
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch

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