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“The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story”
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“The African powers, child. The spirits. The loas. The orishas. The oldest ancestors. You will hear people from Haiti and Cuba and Brazil and so call them different names. You will even hear some names I ain’t tell you, but we all mean the same thing. Them is the ones who does carry we prayers to God Father, for he too busy to listen to every single one of we on earth talking at he all the time. Each of we have a special one who is we father or mother, and no matter what we call it, whether Shango or Santeria or Voudun or what, we all doing the same thing. Serving the spirits.”
― Brown Girl in the Ring
― Brown Girl in the Ring
“That educated didn’t mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.”
― Kindred
― Kindred
“There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle.”
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“Am I to be cursed forever with becoming somebody else on the way to myself?”
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
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