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But I have traveled around the world and I know this to be true: there are assholes who wear natural hair, and assholes who wear weaves. Your hair is not going to determine or even influence what kind of person you are.
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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
“I don’t think you’re ever really grown.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“We move not on but forward.”
― Grown Women
― Grown Women
“And anytime you do your best. Whatever your best is. You are a winner. You are a writer. You are telling your story. Good for all of us. You are.”
― 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
“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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