When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
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I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a good politician.Gayl Jones
My great-grandmama told my grandmama . . . and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.
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I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
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You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.
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