"I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent.""

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jon Weisman

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a powerful signal to employees.”
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
“Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. (â€¦) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they must be slaves to their group. For, if they are not slaves to their own group, they will assuredly become slaves to some other.”
“All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.”
“Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact”
“Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers”

Source : "New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies". Book by Rick Dolphijn, Iris van der Tuin, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2012.
“Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.”
“We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.”

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