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“We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
“There's so much beauty in this world that it's hard to begin. There are no words with which to express my gratitude at having been given this one chance to live - if not Live. Let other people frequent the nightclubs in their tight-ass skirts and Live. I'm just sitting here, vibrating in my apartment, at having been given this one chance to live.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
“A garden's beauty never lies in one flower.”
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“boundaries, Sheila. Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
― Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
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