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If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

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Kiese Laymon

Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

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In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

Writing, Always Trying, Connections, Remember, Push

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

American, Character, Honesty, Wish, Writing

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.

Audience, Invested, Literature, Number, Numbers, What If

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

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I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

Four, Monsterish, Real, Student, Teacher
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