That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
("Bastard Out of Carolina")
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When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.
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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
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Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.
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