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But I spoke my mind because my father taught me that there is power in speaking truth to power.
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“Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is stay the hell away from them.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.”
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“And isn’t that what literature should teach us. To be our own hero. To love. To care. To cry. To laugh. To live. And try to let others live, too.”
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature
“We move not on but forward.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“I don’t think you’re ever really grown.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
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