- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid of my own company. I was made to be at home.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.
- Nov 07, 2020
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.
- Family And Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
- Coarse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
- Cocktail
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020