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Charles
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“I knew where the margins were. I could expand a little bit inside them.”
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“The avant-garde need not be moral.”
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“My way always has been to be as contrary to everything as I can be. When the Bible says black, I say white. When it says good. I say evil. When it says, Behold, Jehovah is a God of Light, I say, Behold, He is the Lord of dark places”
― Lord of Dark Places
― Lord of Dark Places
“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.”
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Charles’s 2024 Year in Books
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