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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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