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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great trouble breeds great art, I think.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.
- Local
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the library, I would have been lost.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was something so empowering about having President Obama in office because I know that for many of us, that's something that we never thought that we'd see in our lifetime.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020