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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

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No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

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I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

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I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 18th, 1931

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