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“I learned you haven't read anything if you've only read something once or twice. Reading things more than twice was the reader version of revision.”
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“Our superpower, I was told since I was a child, was perseverance, the ability to survive no matter how much they took from us. I never understood how surviving was our collective superpower when white folk made sure so many of us didn't survive. And those of us who did survive practiced bending so much that breaking seemed inevitable.”
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“Mostly, I wondered what black writers weren't writing when we spent so much creative energy begging white folk to change.”
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“For the first time in my life, I realized telling the truth was way different from finding the truth, and finding the truth had everything to do with revisiting and rearranging words. Revisiting and rearranging words didn't only require vocabulary; it required will, and maybe courage. Revised word patterns were revised thought patterns. Revised thought patterns shaped memory. I knew, looking at all those words, that memories were there, I just had to rearrange, add, subtract, sit, and sift until I found a way to free the memory.”
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“I didn't understand hell, partially because I didn't believe any place could be hotter than Mississippi in August.”
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