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"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."

"There are no explanations, there are no answers."

"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."

"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."
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"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."

"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."

"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."

"Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."

"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."
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