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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

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There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

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I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 18th, 1931

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