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Kwame Dawes
10 quotes
“I am listening to the wind,”
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“If you wait long enough, all murders”
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“A lot of people say they want to leave this city to go somewhere else. Not me. I love this place for what it is. Ugly and pretty. Rough and tender. Chaotic and smooth. Loving and murderous. All of it.”
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“I am a tornado child.”
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“What has been”
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“Yes, I am a fat man, but don't sorry for me. In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge. People call you "boss" before they even know who you are. "Big man," "Boss," "Officer," "King," and my favorite, "My Lord." When a woman call you, "My Lord," that is a sweetness.”
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“you cross me at your peril, I swallow light”
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“All memory is fiction.”
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“I think writers block is something writers invented to blame something other than the lack of things to say for our failure to write.”
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“Responding to art—paintings, sculptures, etc. Writing poems in response to other poems on the white space in a book of poems. Inventing a form and then writing poems in that form for as long as I can stand it. A crown of sonnets. Challenging my language by trying to describe simple but quite difficult things: a taste, a smell, and feeling, in language that is precise and effective.”
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