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" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "
Memory
Nature
Perfect
" A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. "
Black
Believe
People
" As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. "
You
Dream
Power
" At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. "
Beauty
Need
Remember
" Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. "
Dread
Because
Black
" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "
Black
Art
Serious
" Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. "
Black
People
City
" Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. "
Class
Used
People
" Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. "
Rich
Money
People
" Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. "
Writing
World
Been
" Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. "
People
Scorned
Earth
" For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. "
Media
Conflict
Time
" Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. "
Yourself
Self
One Thing
" I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. "
People
Insult
Always
" I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. "
Family
Broken
Think
" I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. "
Upset
Think
Morality
" If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. "
Want
You
Book
" If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. "
Book
You
Write
" If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. "
End
You
Going
" If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. "
Air
You
Ride
" I get angry about things, then go on and work. "
Work
Things
Angry
" I like marriage. The idea. "
Idea
Funny
Like
" I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. "
Demons
Understanding
Black
" I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. "
Children
Black
Words
" I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. "
Other
Work
Views
" In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. "
American
Color
Immigrant
" In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. "
Everybody
White
Country
" I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. "
Talent
Vision
Help
" It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. "
Religion
Will
Paradise
" I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. "
Just
Problems
Thinking
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