John Edgar Wideman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1941

Topics

MusicTimeArtSilenceRhythmPoint

We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us.

Jim Barksdale

WantProductSeemOptionsWorking

I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.

Jenny Slate

KnowNowNothingNextSomething

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

John Otto

GoBuildFirstInstinctThen

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

John Perkins

LifeHistoryMenPeopleWorldWay

Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger whenever I go somewhere to talk about women's rights or make music, rap, or have interviews.

Sonita Alizadeh

LifeGoodWomenMusicWomanMy Life

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Steven Strogatz

LoveCharacterObstaclesProblemYou

I will always make films that champion outsiders, because I still feel like one, even though I'm now governor of the documentary branch of the Academy.

Roger Ross Williams

ChampionFeelNowWillAlwaysStill

Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.

Ron White

MotherBlueSheFineJustLikes

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

Miguel

MusicMeanEthnicitySomethingWho

Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.

Jason Blum

SuccessCreativeProcessCreating

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

Don Cheadle

FamilyLosingFriends And FamilyOut

I'm not here to be a puppet, if you will.

Brock Osweiler

YouWillHerePuppet

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