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Single one of them. Yes, Tim O'Brien. He's gonna lie to you. You know, the reason is is that is that You know you imagine young black woman you ask her who influenced her? Well, you know We're in a business here, and there's a business of you know different kinds of business You know making money, you know, but also, you know becoming more important, you know working in the university whatever So, you know, you're gonna say well, you know Zora Neil Hurston and Phyllis Wheatley to get some dead ones in there And you have to say Tony Morrison, and I was Walker to get some that you know are very famous and so a lot of books Then you get somebody, you know younger, you know at Ouija Danticod and Zadie Smith and you know throw a guy in there, Colson Whitehead just to you know prove that you're liberal But the truth is it was Nancy Drew, right? Right the truth is That when you were eight years old, because an eight-year-old girl if she read the love that she would either kill herself or her mother, right? She said mom, I read about you in this book and you ain't gonna give me I know you said, but no, you know, and when you're a child your heart is wide open

It's wide open. You read things and bring them in and you believe them They are real in your heart and your dreams in your mind You you you you you you you just it's amazing and when you're an adult you're not like that You know and you know and the books that influence you when you're a kid, you know, it's winning the pool. It's Superman You know, it's Batman. You know, it's not like you know something, you know important and good and smart You know, it's like you know and it's you know and it's hard to be honest and to be a writer because you know People have expectations of writers which are actually their expectations of themselves You know and you know, I mean, yeah, I can't help it. I'm not I'm not criticism It's just that I have to be really cautious not to get pulled into it, you know Because it's easy to start to say that I did this and I did that and I didn't you know, I write I write pretty good I can make I can make you believe almost anything and that's like a talent, you know, but But truth isn't but truth isn't the thing, you know like, you know

It's like people getting mad at precious, you know, it's a way. Yeah, there isn't that terrible The only way they can they can show black life is just terrible black life Because I mean, this is great film. What are you talking about? You know, this is great acting great film great direct