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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

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    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993

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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
    Katherine Anne Porter

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    Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words
    “Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength
    and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth
    to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable
    for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.”
    Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays



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