I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
From Octavia E. Butler
A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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