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I get angry about things, then go on and work.

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

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Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 18th, 1931

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