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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.
— Walter Mosley
I think it's some kind of meeting of energies that causes what we see, and that part of those energies emanate from our lifeforces, our minds.
— Walter Mosley
Asking a Southern woman for plain hospitality was like winking at a leprechaun: She had to give up her pot of gold no matter what.
— Walter Mosley
When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.
— Walter Mosley
Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.
— Walter Mosley
I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars.
— Walter Mosley
I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.
— Walter Mosley
Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
— Walter Mosley
You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)
— Walter Mosley
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
— Walter Mosley
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
— Walter Mosley
There was something about his grandfather's death, about men who love their sons ...
— Walter Mosley
He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.
— Walter Mosley
But literacy didn't make you smart, just like, as Twill had already figured out, money didn't make you rich.
— Walter Mosley
The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.
— Walter Mosley
I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.
— Walter Mosley
Oster blender. I poured that concoction into a griddle of sizzling butter, then sprinkled diced strawberries on the wet side. Three
— Walter Mosley
I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.
— Walter Mosley
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
— Walter Mosley
all those days I was walkin' on the streets, I kept thinkin' how special you got to be to get born.
— Walter Mosley
They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their debauched reign.
— Walter Mosley
It's hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire.
— Walter Mosley
I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary calibre. People read for entertainment.
— Walter Mosley
The older you get the more you live in the past
— Walter Mosley
Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
— Walter Mosley
My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.
— Walter Mosley
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.
— Walter Mosley
That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thousand years.
— Walter Mosley
The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead ...
— Walter Mosley
if I had only picked up a telephone and spoken my heart.
— Walter Mosley
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
— Walter Mosley
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
— Walter Mosley
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
— Walter Mosley
I'm just a lie waiting to happen.
— Walter Mosley
This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.
— Walter Mosley
Lawyer even sounds like liar.
— Walter Mosley
Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.
— Walter Mosley
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
— Walter Mosley
Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.
— Walter Mosley
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers.
— Walter Mosley
Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.
— Walter Mosley
Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.
— Walter Mosley
I like to read either in motion or in water ... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.
— Walter Mosley
Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with
— Walter Mosley
If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
— Walter Mosley
But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.
— Walter Mosley
Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger.It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body. — Walter Mosley
I'm sorry he's dead but I am happier, by far, that he lived.
— Walter Mosley
The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.
— Walter Mosley
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
— Walter Mosley
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.
— Walter Mosley
Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that's okay because there's always somebody around that's happy to remind you.
— Walter Mosley
mortality is a living critique of the divine,
— Walter Mosley
