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I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."


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As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.



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I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.



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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.



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You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.



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