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My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straig...

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My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straig...

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. Shadows.

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Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. Shadows.

About Author
Tananarive Priscilla Due ( tə-NAN-ə-reev DEW) (born January 5, 1966) is an American author and educator. Due won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood (2001). She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Due teaches a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", which focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.

Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

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Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you. (

When you know someone in the flesh, you know that person only in part, he told her. A man’s teachings are more important than his flesh form. Flesh is an illusion.

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When you know someone in the flesh, you know that person only in part, he told her. A man’s teachings are more important than his flesh form. Flesh is an illusion.

When my first wife died long ago, in Ethiopia, I thought I knew grief. But until you have witnessed the death of a loved one to another man’s violence, you know nothing of grief.

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When my first wife died long ago, in Ethiopia, I thought I knew grief. But until you have witnessed the death of a loved one to another man’s violence, you know nothing of grief.

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Typing on a screen isn’t the same as talking face-to-face, Gramma Bea said, prying Fana’s worries wide open. Life is something you touch. Typing is easy. Touching is hard. Gramma

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Typing on a screen isn’t the same as talking face-to-face, Gramma Bea said, prying Fana’s worries wide open. Life is something you touch. Typing is easy. Touching is hard. Gramma

They had to work at it, but they found their common ground. Ultimately, though, their differences returned, and she wondered how deeply they ran. How could she continue to overlook them, when they loo...

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They had to work at it, but they found their common ground. Ultimately, though, their differences returned, and she wondered how deeply they ran. How could she continue to overlook them, when they loo...

The dreams don’t scare me, Abbie said. It’s the opposite. I’m sad to wake up. As if I belong there, in the water, and my bedroom is the dream.

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The dreams don’t scare me, Abbie said. It’s the opposite. I’m sad to wake up. As if I belong there, in the water, and my bedroom is the dream.

The devil never gave a gift for free.

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The devil never gave a gift for free.

You’re one of those folks who can’t open her heart once it’s been shut.

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You’re one of those folks who can’t open her heart once it’s been shut.

You know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet.

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You know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet.

Tags: mortality, purpose

Michel, the tight-jawed president of the Black Student Caucus, who called her little sister and would have had potential if he’d remembered to sprinkle in some fun between bouts of righteous indignati...

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Michel, the tight-jawed president of the Black Student Caucus, who called her little sister and would have had potential if he’d remembered to sprinkle in some fun between bouts of righteous indignati...

Is that your lesson? she asked him. I’m sorry to hear that, because you always said just the opposite. Love what you have while you have it, before it’s gone. Isn’t that what you were always trying to...

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Is that your lesson? she asked him. I’m sorry to hear that, because you always said just the opposite. Love what you have while you have it, before it’s gone. Isn’t that what you were always trying to...

If you believe it, Khaldun had said, I could never convince you otherwise. If you do not, nothing I tell you could sway you. I am the one who should be asking you: Is it the truth? No,

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If you believe it, Khaldun had said, I could never convince you otherwise. If you do not, nothing I tell you could sway you. I am the one who should be asking you: Is it the truth? No,

If we’re not careful, the time may come when we can’t help anyone—and I mean soon. My skin crawls when I think about how many people know about us, and they’re not all going to come and say ‘Please.’...

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If we’re not careful, the time may come when we can’t help anyone—and I mean soon. My skin crawls when I think about how many people know about us, and they’re not all going to come and say ‘Please.’...

How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But

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How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But

His voice was full of authority. Fana hadn’t realized how easy it was to make lies sound plausible. Can

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His voice was full of authority. Fana hadn’t realized how easy it was to make lies sound plausible. Can

He'd forgotten what it felt like to surrender to the comfort of tranquility.

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He'd forgotten what it felt like to surrender to the comfort of tranquility.

All liberation is loneliness

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All liberation is loneliness