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She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

Marita Bonner

You just said work did not do you any good! What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in?

Marita Bonner

If you have never lived among your own, you feel prodigal.

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That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.

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You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.

Marita Bonner

No hate has ever unlocked the myriad interlacings—the front of love. Hate is nothing.

Marita Bonner

Marita Bonner

Marita Bonner

Born: June 16, 1899

Died: December 6, 1971 (aged 72)

Bio: Marita Bonner, also known as Marieta Bonner, was an American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

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