Percival Everett

His delicate fingers held the wood for what seemed like too long a time. I'm afraid there's no more wood, I said, which is fine, because I am hot enough. Too hot.

His delicate fingers held the wood for what seemed like too long a time. I'm afraid there's no more wood, I said, which is fine, because I am hot enough. Too hot.

literature i i suppose it's a way of asking do you think black writers are as confined now as then or or is there just a different kind of confinement well no there's there's there there's a much greater range of work um available now some some really fine writers who've found places in the in the literary world and so things have gotten better um

literature i i suppose it's a way of asking do you think black writers are as confined now as then or or is there just a different kind of confinement well no there's there's there there's a much greater range of work um available now some some really fine writers who've found places in the in the literary world and so things have gotten better um

literature i i suppose it's a way of asking do you think black writers are as confined now as then or or is there just a different kind of confinement well no there's there's there there's a much greater range of work um available now some some really fine writers who've found places in the in the literary world and so things have gotten better um

A few months ago, I stayed up late, and I turned on the television at 3 a.m., and there was an Abbott and Costello movie. I don't remember the title of it. It was something like Screams in Africa. And in it were all of these stereotypic black Africans, wide-eyed and afraid of everything, running around carrying stuff for white people.

A few months ago, I stayed up late, and I turned on the television at 3 a.m., and there was an Abbott and Costello movie. I don't remember the title of it. It was something like Screams in Africa. And in it were all of these stereotypic black Africans, wide-eyed and afraid of everything, running around carrying stuff for white people.

A few months ago, I stayed up late, and I turned on the television at 3 a.m., and there was an Abbott and Costello movie. I don't remember the title of it. It was something like Screams in Africa. And in it were all of these stereotypic black Africans, wide-eyed and afraid of everything, running around carrying stuff for white people.

And I realized, well, yeah, we have more, but we haven't gotten rid of this baggage yet. The producers or whatever you call the people, the programmers of this network saw no problem with airing this. They had a slot, let's use this. And it's that kind of insidious insertion of the old stuff that caused so much damage to black psyches that persists.

And I realized, well, yeah, we have more, but we haven't gotten rid of this baggage yet. The producers or whatever you call the people, the programmers of this network saw no problem with airing this. They had a slot, let's use this. And it's that kind of insidious insertion of the old stuff that caused so much damage to black psyches that persists.

And I realized, well, yeah, we have more, but we haven't gotten rid of this baggage yet. The producers or whatever you call the people, the programmers of this network saw no problem with airing this. They had a slot, let's use this. And it's that kind of insidious insertion of the old stuff that caused so much damage to black psyches that persists.

Well, I think that is true, and I think it was unconscious more than anything else. The U.S. really hasn't changed in character all that much. And what defines us remains the same. You know, the interesting thing about Huck Finn is it's the first novel... It's not that it's about slavery. It's about a man who was enslaved.

Well, I think that is true, and I think it was unconscious more than anything else. The U.S. really hasn't changed in character all that much. And what defines us remains the same. You know, the interesting thing about Huck Finn is it's the first novel... It's not that it's about slavery. It's about a man who was enslaved.

Well, I think that is true, and I think it was unconscious more than anything else. The U.S. really hasn't changed in character all that much. And what defines us remains the same. You know, the interesting thing about Huck Finn is it's the first novel... It's not that it's about slavery. It's about a man who was enslaved.

You know, when you think of Stowe's novel or some of the slave narratives, they're about slavery. They're not about white Americans experiencing the shame and the contradictions of the condition of slavery. But here we have this young American, this youth, who's having to reconcile moving through the world as a free person, while this person, the only father figure in the novel, is property.

You know, when you think of Stowe's novel or some of the slave narratives, they're about slavery. They're not about white Americans experiencing the shame and the contradictions of the condition of slavery. But here we have this young American, this youth, who's having to reconcile moving through the world as a free person, while this person, the only father figure in the novel, is property.

You know, when you think of Stowe's novel or some of the slave narratives, they're about slavery. They're not about white Americans experiencing the shame and the contradictions of the condition of slavery. But here we have this young American, this youth, who's having to reconcile moving through the world as a free person, while this person, the only father figure in the novel, is property.

It was, you know, first of all, I have to say that this novel doesn't come out of a dissatisfaction with the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I imagine myself in a conversation with Twain doing this. And one of the things I think that he and I would both agree on is that he doesn't write Jim's story because he's not capable of writing Jim's story any more than I'm capable of writing Huck's story.

It was, you know, first of all, I have to say that this novel doesn't come out of a dissatisfaction with the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I imagine myself in a conversation with Twain doing this. And one of the things I think that he and I would both agree on is that he doesn't write Jim's story because he's not capable of writing Jim's story any more than I'm capable of writing Huck's story.

It was, you know, first of all, I have to say that this novel doesn't come out of a dissatisfaction with the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I imagine myself in a conversation with Twain doing this. And one of the things I think that he and I would both agree on is that he doesn't write Jim's story because he's not capable of writing Jim's story any more than I'm capable of writing Huck's story.