"What age is a black boy when he…" — Jonathan Lethem

"What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?"

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76 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and…
How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best?…
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write…
Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of…
Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might…
The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all…
All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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