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Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.
Alice Mattison
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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
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New York City
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Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.
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I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.
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