"I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Danzy Senna

#Growing Up Quotes #Romance Quotes #Hook Quotes

“The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.”
“Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.”

Source : Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan
“Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.”

Source : Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.33, Secretarius MEMPS Publications
“This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.”
“I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'”
“Love sustains everything.”
“You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.”

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