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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."

— Bayo Ojikutu

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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."

"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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