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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

Samuel R. Delany

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Samuel R. Delany
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 1
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Cartoonist
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
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