Walter Mosley Quotes

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• I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.
• The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.
• A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and,…
• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of…
• All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really…
• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You…
• I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need…
• I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with…
• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep…
• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
• Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
• Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
• My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings…
• I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's…
• Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.
• Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.
• Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first…
• I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.
• Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

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