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"You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally, the river floods these places. 'Floods' is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding: it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory--what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination is our flooding."

Toni Morrison, 1986

Toni Morrison, Remembering
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| The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019, dir. Joe Talbot)
| The Last Black Man in San Francisco (…
| Michael Warner, Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood
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“If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Right to Be Lazy — Paul Lafargue
The Right to Be Lazy — Paul Lafargue
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