If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
Stanley CrouchI also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.
Stanley CrouchAll of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
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