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I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
There is a lushness to how my mind works.
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted... →
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic... →
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and... →
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.
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