By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirm...
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It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was...
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All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
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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...
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I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.
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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...
