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Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change.

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I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

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For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one, but 'lying' about one, too.

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Pleasure is a revolutionary act in the face of pain.

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Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.

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At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.

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When I'm in full-on writing mode and have the day, I try to get in my office around 10 A.M. and stop once 'Judge Judy' comes on at 4, when I quit and come down. Sometimes, I leave her on while I edit - if she can make the tough calls, then so can I.

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Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.

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It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits.

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Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.

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