Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth.

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

It&#39;s possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we&#39;ll make it.

Audre Lorde

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