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“It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.”

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I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

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I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and…

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There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that…

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“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.”

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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,…

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I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,…

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“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the…

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“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.”

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People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

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By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the…

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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,…

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

Judith Ellen Foster

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I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my…

Jane Powell

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“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Sophie Kinsella

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Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

Jill Stein

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

Victor Hugo

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Adolf Loos

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

David Bowie

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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.…

James M. Cain

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As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls…

Margaret Cho

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Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

Joanne Harris

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