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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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