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"There's plenty things a colored girl can't have in this life…But I'll be damned if anybody gets to tell us what we can't want. Almost nothing in this world belongs to us, but our desires are ours and we ought not have to explain them to everybody all the damn time. There will always be people demanding to know our reasons, so they can tell us whether they’re valid or not. But this is your life.”

“"Not wanting to be obligated to another person is a good reason for not bringing another person into the world," she said. "But what's also true, Doris, is that you don't need a reason.
You can have an abortion because you want one."

“…You can never want anything, and maybe then you'll never be disappointed when something falls apart.
But if you make a choice to step out into the world, to want things from the world, you better damn well know that disappointment is part of it. And if you are too afraid to face that, then say so, sugar, call it what it is.”

“I don’t want to hear nothing else about who need me. I need myself, Lena.”

“…Etta James was floating from the speakers. I stood in the middle of the dance floor, letting her fill me up. I felt my life opening.”

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"I been thinking about the other question you asked me…About how I knew my life could be different. What I told you, about a voice inside me, that's true. But there's another true thing. I didn't know. Because nobody can know that.

"The most true thing is that I made a choice. I chose not to believe all the people who told me my lite couldn't be different. And then I kept on choosing…”

“What’s so wrong about wanting to feel like somebody loves you the most?”
“The (most)?” She shook her head. “Why should love be a competition?”

“a certain politician rhymes with (foul)?”

WHO are they talking about???

“You could’ve buttered my ass and called me toast…” LMAO! I love her writing!