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My Father Always Taught By Telling Stories About His Experiences. His Lessons Were About Morality And Art And What Insects And Birds And Human Beings Had In Common. He Told Me What It Meant To Be A Man And To Be A Black Man. He Taught Me About Love And Responsibility, About Beauty, And How To Make Gumbo.

When You Talk About Painters And You Talk About Painters Painting Masterpieces, There Is No Painter Who Painted Only One Painting And That Was A Masterpiece. You Have To Do A Whole Bunch Of Paintings To Get To The Place Of Mastering Your Craft.

All Of The Philosophers I Studied Were White (with A Few Eastern Exceptions), And, For That Matter, They Were All Male. Africa, The Cradle Of Civilization, Seemed To Have No Footing In The Highest Form Of Human Thought.

I Think That Computer Programming Shows In My Writing. Often When I Write About Computer Programmers I'll Write About The Way That They See The World And They Structure The World.

I'm Writing, I'm Using Language, I'm Using That Language To Tell Stories And Even More So To Get Ideas Across. And I Just Love That, And I've Always Loved That.