By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a…

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists,...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists,...