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- 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…
- 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…
- I get angry about things, then go on and work.
- Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
- It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
- 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…
- I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
- 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…
- Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about…
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