"At one time if you were a black……" — Walter Mosley
"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 had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good."
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60 Quotes by Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley has 60 quotes on this site.
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I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.
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The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.
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A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John…
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all…
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front…
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working…
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories.…
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my…
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of…
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