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“... there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.”
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“I have resigned myself to the fact that Rick is always going to hate me because he has committed a grave offense against me, for which he will never forgive me.”
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“ It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.”
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“Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.”
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“Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.”
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“If she had ever really known what she wanted, perhaps she would have got it. If you didn't know, you caught at this and that, thinking, as it flashed at you, that it must be what you were looking for, and then, soberly face to face with it, knowing it for something so remote from your seeking.”
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“... it is better to be lonely than to wish to be alone.”
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“... he smelled only the rain and the earth and his own sorrow. Until now, he didn't know that sorrow had a smell, but it did, and it was worse than the stink of blood, of death.”