"Listen up, my boy, be realistic! Drop your sitting around and writing every day, there’s people much better at it, and those people, you see them on telly, they talk well, and when they talk there’s a subject, there’s a verb and there’s an object. They’re born for that, they’re raised in that, while us blacks, it’s not our thing, writing."
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University of California, Los Angeles facultyNovelists from the Republic of the CongoEssayists from the Republic of the CongoPoets from the Republic of the CongoJournalists from the Republic of the Congo
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