A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself.. And if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
Alice Childress
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
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I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God.
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Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
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The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers...
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Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
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... And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience.... Time and events allow for change on both sides.
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It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
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... The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
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... It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
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