Citas de Kiese Laymon

• Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

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  Real, Character, Safety

  Kiese Laymon (2016). “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

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  Writing, And Love, Needs

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• Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

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  Black, Vices, Virtue

  Kiese Laymon (2013). “Long Division”, p.3, Agate Publishing

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• I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

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  Honesty, Writing, Character

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• I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.

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  Morning, Writing, Two

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• Cuando escribo ensayos, trato de forzar la forma de la escritura expositiva. Trato de recordar, de hacer cuentas, de encontrar conexiones con el mundo, con la nación y conmigo mismo, pero siempre intento impulsar también la forma, sin que sea demasiado obvio que estoy intentando impulsar la forma.

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  Writing, Always Trying, Connections

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• I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

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  Not Good Enough, Good Enough, Enough

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• I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it literally was the most time-travelly bit of pop culture we had in the mid 80's. I can talk about their tools for considering change. First, the book is metafictive in a traditional sense where I'm showing and telling the reader that the act of writing and reading is a reflexive way to push boundaries of real and literal time travel. Writers and readers are time travellers. The question is what we do with that time we traveled when we leave a book, leave a page.

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  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.

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  Numbers, What If, Literature

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• Uno de los problemas de muchos escritos "confesionales" es que empiezan y terminan con la confesión y no vinculan realmente el "yo" a un "nosotros". Todavía me sorprende lo mucho que se enfadan los críticos con ese tipo de escritura confesional.

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  Writing, Ties, Mad

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• Soy un escritor negro de Mississippi. Eso es lo que más me considero.

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  Black, Mississippi

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• The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but also because it didn't follow the form of any essay that I've ever read. And the truth that I was exploring necessitated that obliteration of traditional form, I think.

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  Recuerdos, escribir, pensar

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• I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

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  Thinking, Today, Reckoning

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• I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

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  Teacher, Real, Four

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• I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

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  Emo, Writing, People

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• I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."

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  Book, Tired, Gay

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• Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

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  Libro, Pensamiento, Largo

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