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in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
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Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.
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one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.
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When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.
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my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender
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our dreams draw blood from old sores.
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I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.
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Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
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When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.
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