“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Incantation
“I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret.”
— Nas
Take It In The Blood
On Albums, It Was Written (1996)
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