Race Quote by Leonard Michaels

“Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.” quote by Leonard Michaels — Download Open image

““Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.””

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“March 6, 1961 I remembered a party in a house outside of Ann Arbor. There was a jazz band -- piano, bass, drums, and sax -- playing in one of the large rooms. A heavy odor of marijuana hung in the air. The host appeared now and then looking pleased, as if he liked seeing strangers in every room, the…

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Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

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Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

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“Something Evil I said, "Ikstein stands outside the door for a long time before he knocks. Did you suspect that? Did you suspect that he stands there listening to what we say before he knocks?" She said, "Did you know you're crazy?" I said, "I'm not crazy. The expression on his face, when I open the door, is giddy and…

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The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

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“Answers I began two hundred hours of continuous reading in the twelve hours that remained before examinations. Melvin Bloom my roommate flipped the pages of his textbook in a sweet continuous trance. Reviewing the term's work was his pleasure. He went to sleep early. While he slept I bent into the night reading eating Benzedrine smoking cigarettes. Shrieking dwarfs charged…

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Self-confidence can be crippling.

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Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

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There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

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There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

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