John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.

Jillian Michaels

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I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.

Tommy Lee

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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Robert Benchley

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I did a commercial for a phone company when I was five. But my first big thing was when I was eight. I was on the first season of 'E.R.'

Milana Vayntrub

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People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.

Julia Garner

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Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.

Jason Statham

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First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Christopher Shays

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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

Clifford D. Simak

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My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

Arabella Weir

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The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

Antony Beevor

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I've actually been compared to every female singer going from Britney, Christina, Mariah, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, everyone. And they are so different, so I think it's cool that people see me as so many different artistes but I think I'm a little different, yeah.

Pixie Lott

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