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Top 25 Tananarive Due Quotes (2026 Update)

Tananarive Due Quote: “The devil never gave a gift for free.”

1. “The devil never gave a gift for free.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Black history is black horror.”

2. “Black history is black horror.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “I don’t think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be.”

3. “I don’t think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But.”

4. “How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “The dreams don’t scare me,” Abbie said. “It’s the opposite. I’m sad to wake up. As if I belong there, in the water, and my bedroom is the dream.”

5. “The dreams don’t scare me,” Abbie said. “It’s the opposite. I’m sad to wake up. As if I belong there, in the water, and my bedroom is the dream.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most.”

6. “We only waste energy to have horrible fights with the people we love the most.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Braxton Cosby’s stories feel personal and well thought-out. I’m happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!”

7. “Braxton Cosby’s stories feel personal and well thought-out. I’m happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That’s all life is, on this earth anyway.”

8. “My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That’s all life is, on this earth anyway.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Danielle wasn’t sure if she was patient and wise, or if she was a tragedy unfolding slowly, one hot summer day at a time.”

9. “Danielle wasn’t sure if she was patient and wise, or if she was a tragedy unfolding slowly, one hot summer day at a time.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Is that your lesson?” she asked him. “I’m sorry to hear that, because you always said just the opposite. Love what you have while you have it, before it’s gone. Isn’t that what you were always trying to tell me?” Her damp eyes glimmered.”

10. “Is that your lesson?” she asked him. “I’m sorry to hear that, because you always said just the opposite. Love what you have while you have it, before it’s gone. Isn’t that what you were always trying to tell me?” Her damp eyes glimmered.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “That’s the difference between us and white folks, she told herself. They don’t stop to say “I can’t” or “Should I,” they just do.”

11. “That’s the difference between us and white folks, she told herself. They don’t stop to say “I can’t” or “Should I,” they just do.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “I’ve spent my adult life trying to mend the mistakes I made when I was young, which is what we all do, I suppose –.”

12. “I’ve spent my adult life trying to mend the mistakes I made when I was young, which is what we all do, I suppose –.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Friends protect each other. That’s the only meaning of friendship in a place like this.”

13. “Friends protect each other. That’s the only meaning of friendship in a place like this.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “We was a mighty and beautiful word.”

14. “We was a mighty and beautiful word.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Smart people of good conscience lived everywhere, if only you looked for them.”

15. “Smart people of good conscience lived everywhere, if only you looked for them.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “For the first time, she understood the liberation of having nothing left to lose.”

16. “For the first time, she understood the liberation of having nothing left to lose.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Florida’s soil is soaked with so much blood, it’s a wonder the droplets don’t seep between your toes with every step, Mama used to say.”

17. “Florida’s soil is soaked with so much blood, it’s a wonder the droplets don’t seep between your toes with every step, Mama used to say.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Mama had kept most of her childhood stories locked in her eyes. Mama’s stories were unsuited for the ears of children – stories of evil without consequence and pain without cease – the unholy things that happen when God blinks. Or maybe sleeps. Surely God sleeps sometimes, Gloria thought; the evidence of slumber was all around.”

18. “Mama had kept most of her childhood stories locked in her eyes. Mama’s stories were unsuited for the ears of children – stories of evil without consequence and pain without cease – the unholy things that happen when God blinks. Or maybe sleeps. Surely God sleeps sometimes, Gloria thought; the evidence of slumber was all around.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Was this all life was? A series of experiences and then someone feeding you as if none of it had ever happened? As if you’d never left any impression on the world?”

19. “Was this all life was? A series of experiences and then someone feeding you as if none of it had ever happened? As if you’d never left any impression on the world?”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Gloria had always found it silly that so much effort went into trying to send humans to space instead of learning how to get along on Earth.”

20. “Gloria had always found it silly that so much effort went into trying to send humans to space instead of learning how to get along on Earth.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil.”

21. “She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “No one person can be blamed for our nation’s current nightmare of mass incarceration.”

22. “No one person can be blamed for our nation’s current nightmare of mass incarceration.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “One thing I’ve learned,” Miz Lottie went on. “Everything seems fine until it ain’t. And then we come to see it wasn’t never ’fine.”

23. “One thing I’ve learned,” Miz Lottie went on. “Everything seems fine until it ain’t. And then we come to see it wasn’t never ’fine.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “She’d told Gloria that whites had remarked to her that Waymon had “changed” since the war, how he unnerved people as he paraded to church in his Army uniform every Sunday. Waymon said he liked to remind people he had shed blood, and he might shed blood again.”

24. “She’d told Gloria that whites had remarked to her that Waymon had “changed” since the war, how he unnerved people as he paraded to church in his Army uniform every Sunday. Waymon said he liked to remind people he had shed blood, and he might shed blood again.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “Cuz, see, colored folks fighting for what’s theirs is like a virus to white folks – and they kill a virus so it don’t spread.”

25. “Cuz, see, colored folks fighting for what’s theirs is like a virus to white folks – and they kill a virus so it don’t spread.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “This land hid bones that had not been properly spoken for.”

26. “This land hid bones that had not been properly spoken for.”

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Tananarive Due Quote: “I don’t b’lieve in ‘evil’ in most ways,” Miz Lottie said. “I believe in the devil, all right, but man don’t need no help from Satan to do what folks call ‘evil.’ Man do evil ev’ry day and call it doin’ their job.”

27. “I don’t b’lieve in ‘evil’ in most ways,” Miz Lottie said. “I believe in the devil, all right, but man don’t need no help from Satan to do what folks call ‘evil.’ Man do evil ev’ry day and call it doin’ their job.”

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