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Bayo Ojikutu
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“There is this easiness to disavow our community. Forty-seventh Street was so beautiful. It's so easy to let these things fall.”
Bayo Ojikutu (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most influential writer of direct African descent over the course of my aesthetic life has been John Edgar Wideman.”
Bayo Ojikutu (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There exists a unifying spirit force crafting a conjoining line through a many-volume tale: a One Plot told by a transcendent narrator that conveys every bit of all our stories for all time.”
Bayo Ojikutu (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My hope is that I approach those students' work in as honest, thoughtful and critical a fashion as I would the work of any established author of published fiction.”
Bayo Ojikutu (born 1971) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his philosophy of teaching creative writing. Shoptalk: Bayo Ojikutu, Newcity Lit, 18 July 2011.
“Stay on these trains in this city, end-to-end, north-to-west, south-to-east, ride with eyes open, there and back again, and you will see things for what they are.”
Bayo Ojikutu (born 1971) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Describing how Chicago continues to inspire his fiction. Shoptalk: Bayo Ojikutu, Newcity Lit, 18 July 2011.
“If you push me, I'll say that I wish I'd written the Book of Job from the Old Testament. In Aramaic.”
Bayo Ojikutu (born 1971) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to a question about a book he wishes he had written. Shoptalk: Bayo Ojikutu, Newcity Lit, 18 July 2011.