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Michelle Tea is an American author born in 1971. Her works cover a variety of themes, including gender, identity, and community. Tea is known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into the lives of marginalized groups.

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“I have had the occasion of coming into money and spending some recklessly, like on a purse. At this point, shopping and the spending of money on things like Botox gives me the rush I used to get copping drugs on the street. Or, making other people cop drugs for me on the street. I didn't like to do that. I wanted to protect my reputation.”

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“I've been dreaming about having a press forever, like the '90s. I've always known so many great writers who aren't as connected to the publishing world as they should be, and I have the energy and the enthusiasm to sort of gather and promote people, so I've always thought someday I might embark on a big project like that.”

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“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”

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“You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.”

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“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”

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Book:The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

Source: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

“...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped.”

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About the Author

Born: 1971
Known for: Author
Quotes: 28

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Black WaveRelated source material

The Beautiful: Collected PoemsRelated source material

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