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Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

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Stephen L. Carter

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

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If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

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But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

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In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

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