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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
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“Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on ONE hand...', then 'but on the other...”
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what I wish to do. If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water. Behind this question is the suggestion that to write for black people is somehow to diminish the writing. From my perspective there are only black people. When I say 'people,' that's what I mean.”
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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
402 books
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100 friends
888 books
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182 friends
172 books
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55 friends
855 books
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66 friends
1,375 books
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104 friends
481 books
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347 friends
660 books
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134 friends
56 books
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33 friends
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