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That’s what the Depression kind of showed, that hard work guaranteed you nothing.

— Gloria Naylor Interview with PBS (2000)

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If you can just first maintain your own humanity, reify your own personal worth. You then flow into the system as an entity.

Interview with PBS (2000)

Perhaps of the books that we were reading, the one that really stands out the most about the American dream is The Street (by Ann Petry).

Interview with PBS (2000)

When I think of the American dream, that’s what I think of something that is manufactured, something that is ethereal, something that’s not quite there yet.

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