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• Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it…
• Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is…
• Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
• Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
• Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
• There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody…
• The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
• Being able to laugh got me through.
• Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,…
• Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What…
• An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his…
• Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still…

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