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The tradition that I come out of as a Black writer is really the activist-artist tradition.

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I am definitely a product of the 60s, of the Black Arts Movement, and I believe that the

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work of an artist writing for oppressed people, which is what I'm doing as a Black woman,

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is to make, as Toni Cade Bambara says, is to make revolution irresistible, to make people

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see that they can change their lives, and it definitely is going to be hard work and

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sacrifice and all of that, but it's also going to be adventures and wonderful moments

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and, you know, doing the kind of work that really is exciting, that makes you fall into

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bed at the end of the day, exhausted, but knowing that you've taken the place where

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you live one step closer to really being the community that you want to live in.