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Who cared if he rose up from the dead? Weeds did that, too. It wasn’t in Vern’s nature to trust a man with that much power. For how did he come to have it?
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
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“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
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“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
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