You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of … - Ayana Mathis

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I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

Ayana Mathis

You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have with writing my second book is getting back into a situation where I think about the words on the page rather than the publishing industry, or success, or any kind of readership I may now have. I'll have to do what writers do, which is focus on the story and nothing else.

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I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

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Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

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Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs in the street. So the process of beginning to rid the country of prejudice was in itself a kind of nation-building.

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If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.

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My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

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