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Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

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Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

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I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

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I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

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I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

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A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

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History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

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We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

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My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

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Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch 'The Neverending Story,' 'Labyrinth,' and 'Legend' over and over again. Also, 'Willow' and 'The Goonies.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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