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Kwame Dawes Quotes

b. 1962 Ghana

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes CD (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, academic, critic, actor, and musician. He is the former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina and former Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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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.

If you wait long enough, all murders

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