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" One of the things that's great about writing for a magazine is that every week you get to be a different person. You're writing different things all the time and not slogging along for years on something. "

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" Black excellence is a thing. People - from Beyonce Knowles to Venus and Serena Williams to folks you haven't heard of - are into it. It's less a movement than a standard: believers set the bar high not only for themselves but also for others who share their vision, especially when it pertains to black history, stories, and style. "

" I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old. "

" If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy. "

" If you have a word of encouragement, you can do anything. "

" I love writing. Writing has been very good to me. "

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" I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power, so he wanted it, too. But if you look at the work before that, before 'The Fire Next Time' put him on the cover of 'Time Magazine,' it was much more intimate and a much more internal conversation. "

" I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story. "

" For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like. "

" I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some disco - was considered soulless, aberrant, just one more example of the Caucasian's desire to scream and yell and demand whatever their privilege and perpetual adolescence dictated they should demand. "

" I love Andre Leon Talley as a person. "

" I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world. "

" I am always attracted to people who are not myself but are. "

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" I don't think that there are many, many strong, black male role models who provide a certain kind of really American, Southern-based comfort that Madea grows out of. She's a signpost in our Obama world of traditional Christian values. "

" It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. "

" I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption. "

" I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. "

" I'm one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it's because I don't feel very happy about not learning. "

" Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother. "

" Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us. "

" I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting? "

" I think that Tyler Perry's genius really has been to tap into the domestic market. He knows what his audience is based on, having toured America for so long, and then giving them the blueprint for his films prior to the films coming out, and then the films have the built-in audience because they've seen it in theaters already. "

" I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia. "

" I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false. "

" It's dollars before art in Hollywood. "

" My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation. "

" In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows. "

" Women have an ability to be still in a way men don't. "

" I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it. "

" Boredom means you develop your own interior life. "