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He believes her body to be something that he understands, and, treacherously, it is.
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
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“I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It’s just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.”
― Women in Clothes
― Women in Clothes
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“Better to have your failure right in front of you than the fantasy in your head.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
“I'm so fucking tired of black women always being described by their skin tones! Honey-colored this! Dark-chocolate that! My paternal grandmother was mocha-tinged, café-au-lait, graham-fucking-cracker brown! How come they never describe the white characters in relation to foodstuffs and hot liquids? Why aren't there any yogurt-colored, egg-shell-toned, string-cheese-skinned, low-fat-milk white protagonists in these racist, no-third-act-having books? That's why black literature sucks!”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
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