“I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.”
![“I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I finally summoned up the bad taste to move to Los Angeles.” quote by Leslie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cce/leslie-dixon-99155_bad-taste_i-noticed-i-had-developed-a-fantasy-abou_262765.jpg)
