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en I think he's a great millennial figure because he represents one of the darkest extremes of Western culture, ... I think he wrote in uncharted waters. His writing is pitch black, and I don't think any writer before or since had touched bottom in the human psyche. I think Sade goes there and goes there relentlessly.

en I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.

en These cells have never been transplanted into a human being before, nor anything like them. These are uncharted waters.

en Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

en There were times when I would finish writing a sequence and I would see the face of my very well-mannered, deeply Presbyterian mother staring back at me from my imagination, looking at me with her lips pursed like, 'Douglas, what do you think you're doing?' ... But if you're tackling a figure like Sade, you have a moral obligation to be true to his spirit.

en I'm always writing from a place in my experience. Generally, I'm writing about something that I don't understand, and I'm writing to make sense of it. It's a discovery process. In that way, it's kind of therapeutic for the writer. If you stumble on something really good, like I did with 'Mercy Now,' then it becomes therapeutic for more than just the writer.

en It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black sea.

en It's just a real plus for us. We like to recruit in Florida, so from that part it helps. ... It's just great that we've had four straight (bowl games). It's uncharted waters for us.

en What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture

en This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.

en For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction. It represents oppression and murder.

en Yeah, the guy that wrote the script is John Hoffman. He wrote and directed. He's one of my best friends in LA. So he asked my if I could play the mom. I think he's such a good writer. It's a kid's movie, but it's written really beautifully. There are moments when I was like, this is so sweet. I really feel it's great to see live action like that for kids. It's moving and makes you think. I found it so touching when I read it.

en What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
  Eudora Welty

en The team got together and decided to dedicate the state tournament to John. We will be wearing black armbands on our uniforms in his honor. This is such a tragedy. He touched all our lives with his writing. He will definitely be missed.

en The National Western is a symbol of our culture, perhaps a gaudy expression of who we are in our wildest dreams. Raising awareness of our culture is the primary value of the National Western.


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