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All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

~Margo Jefferson

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I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I do regret reading so little else there: Austen, George Eliot and occasionally Woolf, likewise Wright, Ellison, Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.

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I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: October 17th, 1947

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