"Your mother’s truth becomes a part of yours, so generational truths have a way of sifting down because it forms you, and you have to deal with some of the issues that form you in order to clear your mind, even of pressures that you don’t know are there.”-- Rosa Guy
“How many of us who are writers have mothers, grandmothers, of limited education; awkward, not at home, with the written word, however eloquent they may be with the spoken one? Born a generation or two before, we might have been them.”
Silences-- Tillie Olsen
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