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A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I felt that what is personal is political.