Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place (1982)

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

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That's one of the privileges of old age — you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

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Black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly — black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair — it just is.

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Now me, when I want ready-made trouble, I dig up a handsome man.

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No one cries when a street dies. There's no line of mourners to walk behind the coffin wheeled on the axis of the earth and lidded by the sky. No organ-piped dirges, no whispered prayers, no eulogy.

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