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What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

~John Edgar Wideman

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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.

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Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.

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

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All my life, I've been very aware of my body. I have always used it as a gauge of things. When I look at a person, and I see their body, that's the beginning of knowledge about them. Furthermore, I respect the body.

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I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.

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I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

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Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

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Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

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I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 14th, 1941

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