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Sapphire
Sapphire

Sapphire, born Patricia Williams, is an American author known for her distinctive literary style and profound insights into social issues. Born on August 4, 1950, she grew up in New York City, experiencing poverty and racial discrimination. Her works often explore themes of race, class, and gender, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

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“...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.”

“He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.”