Jamaican - Athlete | November 16, 1976 -
If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.
Marlon James
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What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
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I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've been able to apply that to feelings. I used to like to know what I felt. I didn't want those feelings to be complicated or muddled or clashing.
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As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.
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Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.
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I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
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In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.
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