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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

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I like marriage. The idea.

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

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Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 18th, 1931

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