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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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