111 Quotes by Rumaan Alam

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    When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that.

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    Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

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    The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

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    With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women.

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    By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

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    Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.

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    It is true for my family and many others: Adoption has made us infinitely richer in the ways that matter most.

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    My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on client fees as well as donor support to do its work.

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