- Blindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020