Margo Jefferson - I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writ...

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I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I do regret reading so little else there: Austen, George Eliot and occasionally Woolf, likewise Wright, Ellison, Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.

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Ich bereue nicht die Jahre, in denen ich den traditionellen Kanon weißer männlicher Schriftsteller in der Schule gelesen habe. Ich bereue es, so wenig anderes dort gelesen zu haben: Austen, George Eliot und gelegentlich Woolf, ebenso Wright, Ellison, Hughes und Gwendolyn Brooks.

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