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  1. bell hooks _ remembered rapture: the writer

    There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we write. We do not write because we must; we always have a choice. We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate. We communicate to connect, to know community.
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  2. bell hooks _ remembered rapture: the writer

    A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.
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  3. bell hooks _ remembered rapture: the writer

    No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
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