- No Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
- Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like marriage. The idea.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
- Brunt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020