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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.

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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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