Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My grandfather had asked me many times whether I'd like to come to South Carolina with him. He wanted to introduce me… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
There's something human that has to do with time and space and being who I am that is in progress and always… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past." — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing called slavery… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
