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No one will believe that I like country music. Even my wife scoffs, when told such a possibility exists. "Go on!" Gloria tells me. "I can see blues, bebop, maybe even a little buckdancing. But not bluegrass." Gloria says, "Hillbilly stuff is not just music. It's like the New York Stock Exchange. The minute you see a sharp rise in it, you better watch out."
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While the two of us are black, the distance between us is sometimes as great as that between Ibo and Yoruba.
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"I'm black. I've accepted myself as that. But didn't I make some elbow room, though?" She tapped her temple with her forefinger. "I mean up here?"
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I discovered that nothing really matters except not being old and being alive and having potential to dream about, and not being alone.
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James Alan McPherson
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Born:
September 16, 1943
Died:
July 27, 2016
(aged 72)
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James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Known for:
Elbow Room (1977)
A Region Not Home: Reflections From Exile (2000)
Crabcakes: A Memoir (1998)
Hue and Cry: Short Stories (1969)
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