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I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. And I think only people who are outsiders do this.

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- Jamaica Kincaid, (May 25 1949-____), Antigua-US journalist; Eleanor P. Richardson came to the US at age 16; joined The New Yorker; 1976, as a journalist; published short stories At the Bottom of the River.

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