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I'm Trying To Speak--to Write-the Truth. I"m Trying To Be Clear. I'm Not Interested In Being Fancy, Or Even Original. Clarity And Truth Will Be Plenty, If I Can Only Achieve Them.

Consider We Are Born Not With Purpose, But With Potential.

On The Other Hand, I Was Very Much Interested In The Way People Behaved, The Human Dance, How They Seemed To Move Around Each Other. I Wanted To Play Around With That.

I Wasn't Trying To Work Out My Own Ancestry. I Was Trying To Get People To Feel Slavery. I Was Trying To Get Across The Kind Of Emotional And Psychological Stones That Slavery Threw At People.

Fantasy Is Totally Wide Open; All You Really Have To Do Is Follow The Rules You've Set. But If You're Writing About Science, You Have To First Learn What You're Writing About.