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Fiction, from 1990: “I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you.”
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid has written numerous books, including the forthcoming “ An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children .” She is a professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
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Fiction, from 1978: “This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.”