"Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English."

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The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.

— Matt de la Pena