Author and poet Sapphire's first best-selling novel, Push, was adapted into the double-Oscar-winning film Precious. Her second, The Kid, has just been published to enthusiastic reviews. But she says that as an African-American artist, she feels the "very real and very painful" effects of racism.
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In this clip, she talks about combating the assumption that "black artists are only able to tell autobiographical horror stories and don't have an imagination."
Read more at the Guardian.
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