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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 18th, 1931

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