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I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.
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When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.
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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.
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I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.
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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.
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My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real.
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My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.
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After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.
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While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader.
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I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.
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I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.
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My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.
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I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.
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I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.
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Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.
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My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.
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Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation.
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If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.
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Jesmyn Ward

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Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.
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My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.
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I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy.
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I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.
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Jesmyn Ward

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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Quote by - William Seward

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Time is money, but also money is money.
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William Gibson

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"When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action."
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Sathya Baba

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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Quote by - Susan Sontag

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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Quote by - Susan B. Anthony

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Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

Quote by - Sue Monk Kidd

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A born king is a very rare being.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Into every life a little rain must fall.
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Sue Monk Kidd

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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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Natalie Goldberg

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"Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty."

Quote by - Franz Kafka

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It's important to remember that life is hectic and unpredictable.
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Mary Helen Bowers

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"Never offend an enemy in a small way."

Quote by - Gore Vidal

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"The present is a product of the past, but it is also the seed for the future."
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Sathya Baba

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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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Bill Gates

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Oscar Wilde

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There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.
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Lenny Bruce

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A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied
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Larry David

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"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."

Quote by - Jack Nicholson

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"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."
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Virgil

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"Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny."
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Gordon B. Hinckley

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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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George Orwell

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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George Orwell

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"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright

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Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Quote by - Christian Slater

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Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.

Quote by - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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