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• ‟ My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

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• ‟ I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

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• ‟ I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

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• ‟ For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

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• ‟ I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

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• ‟ We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

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• ‟ Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

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