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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

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I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

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I'm so used to being misunderstood.

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I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: May 25th, 1949

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