A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.
From James McBride
It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.
The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.
When we're talking about slavery... we're really talking about the web of relationships that exists between whites and blacks from 1619 to 1865 to now.
People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
Anyone can write your own life story.
A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.
I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?
I don't do any art to please any people.
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