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I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.

4. If you push yourself hard in the direction of freedom, compassion, and excellence, you will recover.
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Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

I took out my brush and got to brushing the waves on the back of my head.

Daddy binders, bruh?
Obama: Governor Romney loves him some binders, doesn't he.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.

Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.