Phrase by 'Walter Mosley'

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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  Love , Me , Man , Beauty


All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  You , Know , Nothing , Beginning


We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  You , Yourself , Book , Picture


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.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  Thought , Matter , White , Africa


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.'

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  You , Father , Car , Together


Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  Music , Poetry , Us , Metaphor


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.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  Time , Black , Best , Good


When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  Time , Day , Thinking , Opinion


When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  You , Forget , Remember , Knowledge


I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

Author: Walter Mosley - American Novelist
  Life , Family , Children , Feeling


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