19 ordspråk av Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley
 [At the same time, Mosley struggles to avoid turning his colorful characters into one-dimensional cartoons. One of his recurring characters, Jackson Blue, is a case in point.] If there's anybody who's 'street' in the world, it's Jackson Blue, ... But Jackson, he's reading Cicero. |
| 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. |
| For some people, racism has faded in the background. But not for him. It's still there even when he doesn't experience it. It's become a metaphysical experience in his life. |
| He's not wild in the way that he once was. He wants a deeper commitment or relationship with a woman. |
| I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.' |
| I'm talking about black male heroes, ... I'm not the only one doing this but there's not a big genre of black male heroes, who aren't caricatures. |
| It's 1966, Easy has to come to San Francisco, |
| It's a black erotic novel — 25 percent of it is explicit sex, |
| Octavia Butler has been a beacon for thousands of us. This award will continue her legacy making sure that others will find their way to harbor. |
| Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. |
| The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes. |
| There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world. |
| There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it. |
| Until very recently, ... publishers weren't aware of the fact that African-Americans do so much reading. |
| What I say to myself is, 'I really love these characters and I want to make them as real in the world as I can,' |
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