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"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."

"Good writers are of necessity rare."

"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."

"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."

"I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it."
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"It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think."

"Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome."

"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."

"I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run."

"But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that."

"The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was."
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