Walter Mosley Quotes

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Walter Mosley

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• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Problem

• I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Morning
  • Magic
  • Movies

• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • Thought

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Year

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • English
  • Word
  • Text

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Work
  • Interested
  • Harder

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Help
  • Economy
  • Gratitude

• I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Dare

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Literature

• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Humanity

• It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Needs
  • Intervention
  • Transformations

• Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • World

• I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Beach
  • Bullying

• I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

  

  Luther Allison
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Metaphor