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“I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.”

People Knows Looks Whole White Identity Fit Conflict Definitions Whole Life African American Racial Identity Mulattoes

Author:Mat Johnson

“We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.”

Want Children Goal Fit Conflict Our Children Excellence Addresses Conformity Standing Out

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.”

Source: Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.”

Helping Problem Social Deals Novel Groups Reader Fit Offers Conflict Analysis Protagonists Social Problems

Author:Jane Smiley

“The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for our own contradictions? The only way to understand them is to let them exist, as truths that indicate something about character. People are built of elements that don't fit together - and the conflict of that is their essential drive.”

People Thinking Character Together Novel Fit Conflict Contradiction

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.”

People World Wells Mean Desire Our Lives Communication Fit Conflict Instinct Tales Fairy Resolve Fairy Tale Misfits

Book:The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

Source: The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

“How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?”

Men Has Beens War Hate Fit Conflict Upset Dynasty Indigestion I Hate Love

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden