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“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”

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Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold…

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There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in society has been very accurate or healthy. I don't think we've come up with ways to tell it that don't insult people or hit them in the wrong way. Part of the problem is that most people don't…

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“Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.”

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There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord." And the other is to…

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If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if you try…

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“Most cars drove through there because the drivers is either from The Bottom and wanna get home - or they ain't from The Bottom…

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There has to be some mystery in life, because the joy of being a writer and the joy of being a musician is the…

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“And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.”

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I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that…

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“back,” Daddy said. “It’ll work out.” He had no idea what to do about Helen. They spoke a completely different language. He was an old-timer who called school “schoolin”’ and called me “boy.” He had run off from Jim Crow in the South and felt that education, any education, was a privilege. Helen was far beyond that. Weeks passed, months,…

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I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

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God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

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How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

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If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

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