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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

— Alex Haley Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976)

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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

A Kwanzaa Celebration (1995)

“You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”

This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing.

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