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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS BY MAYA ANGELOU, 1969
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“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“The act of writing is a way to create another world in language, a dwelling place for the psyche wherein the chaos of the external world is transformed, shaped into a made thing, and ordered. It is an act of reclamation. And resistance: the soul sings for justice and the song is poetry.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
“This world is a great busy thoroughfare,
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
“Jim Crow wasn't nothing but slavery, wrapped up in a nice little gift card." -Rev. John Kennard”
― Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
― Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
“Writing is a way of creating order out of chaos, of taking charge of one's own story, being the sovereign of the self by pushing back against received knowledge and guarding the sanctity of the dwelling place of the imagination, that place of first permission.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
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