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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
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Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
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I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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