Author: John Edgar Wideman

Quotes

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

- John Edgar Wideman

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

- John Edgar Wideman

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

- John Edgar Wideman

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

- John Edgar Wideman

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