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The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South.

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The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.

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I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation - that's the role of the artist. But it's not my job to tell us what to do next. I wish I had those tools.

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What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.

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People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.

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Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

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I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

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To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.

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I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

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The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 12th, 1963

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