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

— 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."

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

"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."

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