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You ever find it hard to locate good quotes by Black authors, leaders, and intellectuals? Us too. So we're changing that. No more awkward Google searches. We're growing our own one stop shop for quotes intersecting with Blackness.
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When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I hadn't read before. So in that sense the category was useful to me. But it's not useful to me as I write. I don't sit down to write an African-American zombie story or an African-American story about elevators. I'm writing a story about elevators which happens to talk about race in different ways. Or I'm writing a zombie novel which doesn't have that much to do with being black in America. That novel is really about survival.