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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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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."

"I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director."

"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."

"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."

"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
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"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."

"The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong."

"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."

"When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit."

"I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests."

"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."

"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."

"It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think."
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