John Edgar Wideman Quotes

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryCultureSpeakGeneration

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

John Carmack

PersonSaidBeforeRemarkably

A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don't focus on the little things. But that's the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.

Andre Ward

WorkGoodFocusLittle ThingsStrong

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

CommunityArchitectureDesignLooks

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Stanley Clarke

MusicOpportunitySimpleSongDoing

You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.

Tom Shales

LiveGetting OlderNightStoryYou

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

Michael Moore

GoodTimeDayGovernmentSecurity

I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.

Lizzy Caplan

PeopleThinkYouFar AwaySameOver

Work is my best friend.

Juan Gabriel

WorkFriendBestBest Friend

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

Jason Fried

FlexibleDeadlineCombinationCrucial

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

Cindy Sheehan

PowerLustCountryBeenWhoOur

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

Alison Lohman

YouPerfectDoneSayWhereGoing

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

Penny Jordan

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