Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. November 6, 1969
Birthday: November 6
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.
source: Source: www.oprah.com
topic: Hurt, Thinking, People, Hurting People