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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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Walter Mosley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 12
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Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
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Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
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We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.
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All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
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Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.
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I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.
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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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We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
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Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
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I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.
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There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
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