Gloria Naylor - Mama Day (1988)

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Spoiled. That's all it's about — can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

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You're never free from such a loss. It sits permanently in your middle, but it gets less weighty as time goes on and becomes endurable.

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Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait — in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

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Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places. Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

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Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

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The last time you're doing something — knowing you're doing it for the last — makes it even more alive than the first.

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Really listen this time: the only voice is your own.

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Everybody wants to be right in a world where there ain't no right or wrong to be found.

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