If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.