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"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

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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."

"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."

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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