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• ‟ The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

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• ‟ How dull it is to have people defining you.

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• ‟ People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

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• ‟ My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

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• ‟ I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

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• ‟ On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

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• ‟ I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

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• ‟ Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

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