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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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I am nobody but myself.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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