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“The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough”
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
“The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
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