Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

Uzodinma Iweala

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• I myself don't have Netflix. And recently, I was staying at a friend's place who did, and I was feeling rather poorly one morning, and I sat down and watched the entire series of 'The Killing,' the American version of 'The Killing' in one day. I just got hooked. I thought, 'Wow, I've never done this before.'

  

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• I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • American
  • Society
  • Monolithic