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• ‟ What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

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• ‟ I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

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• ‟ Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

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• ‟ I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

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• ‟ The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

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• ‟ Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

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• ‟ I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

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• ‟ At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

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