And love Quote by Kiese Laymon Download Open image “I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.” — Kiese Laymon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare And love Education Help me Helping Needs Obsessive Revision Teach Writing
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I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
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I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
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I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
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