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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

Don't be afraid. There is no right answer in fashion.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

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