More From Walter Mosley
- "My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo."
- "I think that people don’t know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, ‘I know how to hire someone.’"
- "I’ve always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry is its own medium; it’s very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment."― Story Musgrave
- "Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."― Anatole Broyard
- "The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly."― Frederick William Robertson