"As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

John Edgar Wideman

#Work Out Quotes #Doing You Quotes #Hell Quotes

“I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.”
“It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.”
“I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.”
“I hate women because they always know where things are.”
“Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.”

Source : "Tongue Tied". www.foxnews.com. April 3, 2001.
“Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.”
“As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.”
“The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.”

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