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John Edgar Wideman Quotes

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.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Women Me Trying Way Ancestors Sense

I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the plans for the Death Star.

Hope Simple Death Rebel New Plans

Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being.

Soul People World Think Confused

Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.

Team Wine Year Down Meet Never

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Dance Me Think You Know Beat

Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.

Future Children Writing Privilege

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Mother Me Speak Know Everything How

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Environment Matter Southern Sense

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

Good Hate Me Down Sitting Way

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Life Women Live Woman Little Girls

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

Live Information Economy

We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!

Pliny the Elder

Feet Parent Earth Living Signs Out

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Art Free Understand Write Need Ever

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