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I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

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Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

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Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

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I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

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I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

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I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

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If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

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I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

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I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

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I sleep way too much and I read tremendously.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 31st, 1968

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