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I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

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I love where I'm from. I love the landscape because it is so beautiful, and I also love the people of my community, the people whose stories I'm trying to tell.

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'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.

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It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

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I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South - was Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.

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I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.

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Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn't mean that you can give up the fight.

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People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

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At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

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I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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