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John Edgar Wideman quotes: Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

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 quotes: If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

John Edgar Wideman quotes: Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.

Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: All Stories are True.

All Stories are True.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.

I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: I wish I had time to listen to music more.

I wish I had time to listen to music more.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

John Edgar Wideman quotes: Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.