"Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kiese Laymon

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!”
“.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!”
“I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
“The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.”
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.”

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