“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

—  Pearl Cleage

Source: Deals with the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot

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American novelist 1948

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