Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son.
I shouldn't. Nothing good ever came from letting my father have his way. But I could feel his love for this baby. And even if he couldn't love me, I knew that at this moment, before the baby could grow up and become a disappointment to him, he truly loved him.
I slowly stepped away from the front of my mind, letting him fill that space, letting him feel through my hands, see through my eyes.
"He's amazing," Dad said through me. "You're amazing." He looked up at Violet, and she smiled.


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There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of &#...
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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, ...
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With pencil, you can always erase.
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I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.
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I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it...
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreduc...
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just ...
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
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On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's righ...
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YHVH Is Love; Satan Is Pride
MONK OF YHVH
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever...
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My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spiri...
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Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinte...
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Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
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Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted...
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I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll ...
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to...
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I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not con...
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I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us d...
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I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separa...
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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them....
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I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other ...
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Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of ...
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to yo...
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Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I d...
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Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footste...
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I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave...
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The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body k...
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There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years o...
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The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EME...
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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God ...
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're he...
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That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a...
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Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now an...
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Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invent...
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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, a...
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For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at ...
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I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I ...
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Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest ...
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People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain languag...
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When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the ris...
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Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear...
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The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ...
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The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our cap...
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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repos...
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Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af...
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I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to ...
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In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to...
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...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, ...
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Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I'm dead and gone,
T...
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I wa...
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