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Nov 07, 2020

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

Nov 07, 2020

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Nov 07, 2020

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

Pain
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Nov 07, 2020

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Happiness
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Nov 07, 2020

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Morning
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Nov 07, 2020

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

Fail
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Misunderstood
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Nov 07, 2020

I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

Gardening
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Nov 07, 2020

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.

Consciousness
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Nov 07, 2020

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

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