Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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