“As an already-and always-raced writer, I knew from the very beginning that I could not, would not, reproduce the master's voice and it's assumptions of the all-knowing law of the white father. Nor would I substitute his voice with that of his fawning mistress or his worthy opponent, for both of these positions (mistress or opponent) seemed to confine me to his terrain, in his arena, accepting the house rules in the dominance game.”