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• ‟ There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.

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• ‟ I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me, didn't I think I was beating a dead horse? and dismissively threw my paper on my desk.

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• ‟ I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.

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• ‟ Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.

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• ‟ I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg - that's me - into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn't fit.

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• ‟ It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.

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• ‟ I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.

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