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101 " Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change. "
― Walter Mosley , Futureland
102 " It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away. "
― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
103 " If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life. "
― Walter Mosley , This Year You Write Your Novel
104 " I smiled and unraveled a plan that some strategic command at the back of my mind had been hatching while the woman in me made love to Rosetta Jeanette Lawson in the guise of a man. "
― Walter Mosley , Jack Strong
105 " had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite. "
― Walter Mosley , The Awkward Black Man
106 " The law is a flexible thing—on both sides of the line—influenced by circumstance, character, and, of course, wealth or lack of same. "
― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)
107 " My heart was beating like it was being played by a one-armed Japanese Ondekoza drummer pounding slowly on his seven-hundred-pound drum with a caveman’s club at twilight. "
― Walter Mosley , And Sometimes I Wonder About You (Leonid McGill #5)
108 " I thought I recognized him but most cops blended into one brutal fist for me after a while. "
― Walter Mosley , White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins #3)
109 " A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn’t have done one thing to be proud of. "
110 " You can't fight with death, all you can do is stand your ground and hope that the foundation don't fall out from under you. "
― Walter Mosley , Little Green (Easy Rawlins, #12)
111 " This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him. "
― Walter Mosley , Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore
112 " I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they’re worth a damn they’re bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls’em down. "
― Walter Mosley , When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3)
113 " But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage. Those two cops felt fully authorized to stop us with no reason and no warrant. They felt that they could question us and search us and cart us off to jail if there was the slightest flaw in how we explained our business. Even "
― Walter Mosley , Cinnamon Kiss (Easy Rawlins #10)
114 " It’s a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity is hatred in the eyes of others. “BLUE, "
115 " Money ain’t the root of all evil,” Coydog had told the boy Li’l Pea, “but it get a hold on some people like vines on a tree or the smell’a fungus on damp sheets. They’s some people need money before love or laughter. All you can do is feel sorry for someone like that. "
― Walter Mosley , The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
116 " THAT WAS IT. A life worth remembering is hell to live. "
― Walter Mosley , Fear of the Dark (Fearless Jones, #3)
117 " — I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the police and the government, public opinion, and even the history taught in schools. It was odd that such negative thoughts would invigorate me. But knowing the truth, no matter how bad it was, gave you some chance, a little bit of an edge. "
― Walter Mosley , Blonde Faith (Easy Rawlins #11)
118 " Time is like a river,” Coydog had told the boy. “It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin’. You couldn’t stop it no more than you could fly away. "
119 " Hector’s smile was the anticipation of another man’s pain. Primo "
― Walter Mosley , Charcoal Joe (Easy Rawlins #14)
120 " The guard smirked at me, and again I wondered at all the minutes and hours and days that I’d spent on meaningless encounters like this one. I wanted to say to the little white man, “Listen, brother, we’re not enemies. I just want to go up in an elevator like anybody else. You don’t need to worry about me. It’s the men that own this building that are making you poor and uneducated and angry.” But I didn’t say anything. He wouldn’t have heard me. I couldn’t free either one of us from our bonds of hatred. "