Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life, I might have disliked them because I never knew how to properly apply them. Also commas, and whether they were outside the quote or inside the quote - that all seemed like an unnecessary pain in the ass.

John Edgar Wideman's Popular Quotes

That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them up and live with them…

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Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and …

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When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppr…

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I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we…

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As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

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A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality…

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Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

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Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

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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.

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