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Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.
Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.
Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.
I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding
She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.
Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.
It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
The great events of the world take place in the brain.
The only real people are the people who never existed.
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.
My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.
I grew up loving cartoons, comics, magic, and writing.
We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born
An experiment not worth doing is not worth doing well.
I think some writers should wait for something to say.