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“[to know your whites] ... is to be intimate with some white persons but to critically withhold faith in white people categorically”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

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“Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fas as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives every second at a time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and details.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

tags: memoir, natalie-goldberg, writing

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“Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

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“If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

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“Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

tags: brave, female, human, inspirational, revolutionary

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