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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those ...more

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I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I h...more

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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

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When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense of cultural values, and our cr...more

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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficult...more