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Faulkner’s characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that, for inner lives that are much more complicated and more poetic than we think.

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I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer – or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South – was Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple,’ which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.

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May 3, 2024

I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer – or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South – was Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple,’ which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.

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May 3, 2024

Ricky Whittle’s abs, they should be in a museum. They’re crazy.

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