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Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

James McBride

John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.

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James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.

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All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.

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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

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My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.

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I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.

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I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

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People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.

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My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.

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I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

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I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.

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The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.

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I read more history books than anything else.

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Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.

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I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

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A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.

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