Walter Mosley Quotes
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
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I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
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I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.
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President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
