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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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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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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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I am nobody but myself.
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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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