American - Author | November 5, 1982 -
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.
Uzodinma Iweala
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.
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It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
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America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.
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Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.
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I've been writing since I was really young.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
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As Americans, I think we're a very entitled bunch.
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.
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