20 quotes
I write for myself and anyone else who enjoys a good story and is eager to read about characters that are still underrepresented in literature.
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Is every, every?’ ‘Everything’s fine,’ I say, sensing her struggle with the words.
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The peripatetic nature of my childhood compounded my teenage sense of not quite belonging, nudging me ever closer to books in an on-going search for home.
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I think as I grow older I am more interested in what happens in the next stage of life. And I’ve been reading a lot of stories about older men.
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I keep remembering the man who repeatedly lifted an empty fork from his plate to his toothless mouth.
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As a black woman who has lived in many countries, I am conscious of what it means to be black in different parts of the world.
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Now the books are arranged according to which characters I believe ought to be talking to each other.
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Toni Morrison’s novel Home for the immense power of her story and the exquisite beauty of her language. I’ve read, re-read and listened to the book being read by the author.
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I’ve been surprised by how many young people as well as people who are not from the African Diaspora have found this book an inspiration and a comfort.
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of course, they can be just as good or just as bad. They can be even better or even worse. Yet for me, experience outweighs any sense of risk.
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The architects must only have thought of women when they designed retirement homes, and assumed they liked to sit and stare solemnly at gardens all day.
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I may be old, but farting and burping in public is not something I intend to succumb to. If I can help it.
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It’s tough out here, and sometimes when I read about Africa, I don’t see America being any better. It’s really a crying shame.
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I wonder if I should explain that it’s not that I don’t want to make love, only that after a long day of attending to others I’m craving space.
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What is done is done and I’ll wait until I get home to see how bad things really are. Consider the birds in the sky, I remind myself. Consider the birds in the sky.
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I dream of being held. Of being touched. Of being desired again. Of being recognized. Of not having to worry about what other people might one day think of this, might already be thinking.
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When was the last time you failed or faced rejection as a writer and how did you cope with it and what did you learn from the experience?
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How often I have felt lonely even when with someone. Lonelier sometimes than when I’m on my own.
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How could I explain that the way he craved my body made me angry
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Madness. Old age is a massacre. No place for sissies. No place for love songs. No place for dreaming. No place for dreaming erotic dreams
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