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" Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. "

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" The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. "

" If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. "

" 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. "

" Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. "

" Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. "

" Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. "

" I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. "

" I get angry about things, then go on and work. "

" Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. "

" When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. "

" Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. "

" As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. "

" Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. "

" I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. "

" I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. "

" You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? "

" Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. "

" For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. "

" I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. "

" You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. "

" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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" At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. "

" In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. "

" I like marriage. The idea. "

" My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. "

" The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. "