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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 5, 1966

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GirlScienceWorldBookBlackEarly

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

Jennifer Palmieri

GovernmentControlYouPartyMore

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

John Crowley

CompassionWorldThinkKnowLiving

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Stephen Hawking

GodScienceUniverseNeedExplain

In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.

Subcomandante Marcos

WillUpExpensiveRepeatSitSeat

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

Rupert Everett

WorkArmyYouBadBackNow

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

WorkFamilyHard WorkFutureTime

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

Mitch McConnell

FutureScienceJobNowTryProtect

I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.

Juan Diego Florez

FreeThinkSpontaneousNaturalMost

Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.

Devin Ratray

BestSchoolMeLearnWayGoing

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

Dawn French

MoneyTheatrePerformanceLovedPlay

I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.

Chloe Zhao

StrengthTogetherThinkLanguageTry

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