” To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. “
” There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. “
” I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. “
” Even in 2012, if there’s a black character in the movies or on television that’s a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they’re always ‘up from the streets. “
” In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it’s as if they don’t exist. “
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