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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
- Sin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
- Malcolm X
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Fame' exhausts me.
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- Nov 07, 2020