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"I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect."
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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue."
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"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."


"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."


"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."


"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."


"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."


"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."


"I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people."
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