Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.
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… - John Edgar Wideman
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…
- John Edgar Wideman
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 … - John Edgar Wideman
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 …
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… - John Edgar Wideman
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…
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… - John Edgar Wideman
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…
As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well. - John Edgar Wideman
As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.
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… - John Edgar Wideman
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…
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. - John Edgar Wideman
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. - John Edgar Wideman
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.
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. - John Edgar Wideman
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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