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" I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. "

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" A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. "

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" 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. "

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