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“Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.”
-- John Edgar Wideman

#Dream #Fall #Enemy
“When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.”
-- John Edgar Wideman

#Basketball #Dream #Air
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”
-- John Edgar Wideman

#Writing #Scary #Important
“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”
-- John Edgar Wideman

#Children #Wall #Kids
“One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.”
-- John Edgar Wideman

#Children #Lessons #Might

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