"One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back."

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John Edgar Wideman

#Children Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Might Quotes

“My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.”
“At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."”
“You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.”
“Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.”
“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”

Source : Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction
“On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.”
“Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.”
“Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.”

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