"A lot of us come to writing because we love to read books and read very widely. And if you are a Black person or a person of color or a white woman or a woman of color or a Black woman, so many of the books that youâre told to readââYou love to read, read this bookââyouâre not in them. Those books could be very wonderful and formative, but I think as a creator, you have to think about, where am I actually writing to and from, and what am I going to pull from? Am I going to pull from the tradition that is not necessarily my language, but Iâve been told is the language of fiction? Or do I pull from the things that are actually around me to make storiesâ make meaning for myself and for the people who I want to write to?"
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