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No Telephone to Heaven
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Abeng
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1984
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Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
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Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise
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If I Could Write This in Fire
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The Store of a Million Items
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Bodies of Water
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1990
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Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories
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2009
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Into the Interior
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The Land Of Look Behind: Prose And Poetry
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“It was never a question of passing. It was a question of hiding. Behind Black and white perceptions of who we were -- who they thought we were. Tropics. Plantations. Calypso. Cricket. We were the people with the musical voices and the coronation mugs on our parlor tables. I would be whatever figurine these foreign imaginations cared for me to be. It would be so simple to let others fill in for me. So easy to startle them with a flash of anger when their visions got out of hand -- but never to sustain the anger for myself. It would be a life lived within myself. A life cut off. I know who I am but you will never know who I am. I may in fact lose touch with who I am.”
― Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire
― Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire
“Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?”
― Michelle Cliff, Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories
― Michelle Cliff, Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories
“One of the effects of indoctrination, of passing into the anglo-centrism of British West Indian culture, is that you believe absolutely in the hegemony of the King's English and in the proper forms of expression. Or else your writing is not literature; it is folklore, or worse. And folklore can never be art. Read some poetry by West Indian writers--some, not all--and you will see what I mean. The reader has to dissect anglican stanza after anglican stanza for Caribbean truth, and may never find it. The anglican ideal -- Milton, Wordsworth, Keats -- was held before us with an assurance that we were unable, and would never be able, to achieve such excellence. We crouched outside the cave.”
― Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire
― Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire
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