Anyone who makes life harder than it needs to be, or who does not support you is not someone you need in your life. When I am around my best friends I am totally myself, I laugh too hard, say stupid things, and goof around. ... I believe that true friends do things for one another without being asked to, they know each other well enough they don't need to be told when to do something or how to do it, they know what their friend likes and dislikes. ... I remember last year when I was having a shitty time dealing with some friends and some personal problems, Tyriek asked me "Why br...

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She won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and received grater recognition when in 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African- American women to do so. ... It is a rare writer who can be successful trying to entertain, educate, and expand upon some of life's deeper mysteries, but Morrison does all these."... With you all coughin' and me watchin' so TB wouldn't take you off and if you was sleepin' quiet I thought, O Lord, they dead and put my hand over your mouth to feel if the breath was comin' what you talkin' 'bout did I l...

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• Grade Level: High School