Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.Toni Morrison
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
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Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.
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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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