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The big talent is persistence.

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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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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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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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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'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
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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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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'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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