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The trouble with Clare was not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
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“And isn’t that what literature should teach us. To be our own hero. To love. To care. To cry. To laugh. To live. And try to let others live, too.”
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
“I don’t think you’re ever really grown.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“And anytime you do your best. Whatever your best is. You are a winner. You are a writer. You are telling your story. Good for all of us. You are.”
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
“Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
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