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Bayo Ojikutu Quotes

born 1971

Bayo Ojikutu (born Bayo Olayinka Ojikutu; 1971) is a Nigerian-American creative writer, novelist, essayist, and university lecturer. He is the author of 47th Street Black and Free Burning, and has taught creative writing at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, and Roosevelt University.

Random Bayo Ojikutu quote

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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."

"If you push me, I'll say that I wish I'd written the Book of Job from the Old Testament. In Aramaic."

"The most influential writer of direct African descent over the course of my aesthetic life has been John Edgar Wideman."

"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."

"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."

"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."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bayo Ojikutu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.