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I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.
You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to the fact that people are going to not like you, and they are just going to rip you apart, and whatever you say in an interview can get quoted out of context.
Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.