“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”
Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist
“Of course I'm a black writer…. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hassidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.”
Interview in Newsweek (30 March 1981)
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