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“No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough”
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
― Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.”
― Paris Stories
― Paris Stories
“Idealism without consequences is the pathetic dream of every spoiled brat, I suppose.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
“The experience of horror is an experience of emptiness.”
― My Face for the World to See
― My Face for the World to See
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