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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall'.
Walter Mosley
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Walter Mosley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 12
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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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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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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.
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We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.
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