Every major African-American writer of the twentieth century, at least until your lifetime, when black writers in this country are now born and raised in cities, in California or Minneapolis or New York or and in modern Atlanta and they come from all the same places other Americas do.

二十世纪的每一个主流的非裔美籍作家,至少到你们这一辈子所能接触到的,这个国家的黑人作家,现在,都生于城市长于城市,在加州,明尼阿波利斯市或者纽约市,或者现代亚特兰大,他们从和其他美国人来自同一个地方

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But in the United States, I would say, most definitely, my favorite city, my favorite place I've ever been.

但我十分确信，在美国，在我去过的城市和地方中，我最喜欢纽约。

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