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It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

~James Mcbride

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The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.

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Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.

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When we're talking about slavery... we're really talking about the web of relationships that exists between whites and blacks from 1619 to 1865 to now.

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Anyone can write your own life story.

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A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.

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I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

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I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?

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The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.

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I don't do any art to please any people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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