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amiboughter's review
4.0
"My inheritance was particular, specifically limited and limiting: my birthright was vast, connecting me to all that lives, and to everyone, forever. But one cannot claim the birthright without accepting the inheritance. Therefore, when I began, seriously, to write – when I knew I was committed, that this would be my life – I had to try to describe that particular condition which was – is – the living proof of my inheritance. And, at the same time, with that very same description, I had to claim my birthright. I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all."
"One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
"One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
lauramoon_'s review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
4.0
he's such a good writer, the way he uses words is something I eill firever be envious of.
ericispublius's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Antisemitism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Slavery