"Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind."

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Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

— Garrison Keillor