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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 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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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