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With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

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Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

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We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

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In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.

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When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

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I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

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I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.

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I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is.

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Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.

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My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 12th, 1963

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