Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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He's not wild in the way that he once was. He wants a deeper commitment or relationship with a woman.Walter Mosley
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.
Walter Mosley
What I want to do is give people who've been there a chance to recreate that world and those who've haven't been there a chance to create it, ... For a lot of people, it's an alien land, the world of black Los Angeles.
Walter Mosley
At the same time, Mosley struggles to avoid turning his colorful characters into one-dimensional cartoons. One of his recurring characters, Jackson Blue, is a case in point. If there's anybody who's 'street' in the world, it's Jackson Blue, ... But Jackson, he's reading Cicero.
Walter Mosley
The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes.
Walter Mosley
There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world.
Walter Mosley
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