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John Edgar Wideman

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My books are not about how it feels to be a black man. My books are about how it feels to be a human being, and part of what I’m trying to sort out is what we mean – what I mean, what you mean, what everybody in the culture means – when they say ‘black man,’ or they say ‘white person.’

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I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn’t have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

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My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately – I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I’m seeing this. I’m supposed to stop this. And I couldn’t.

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May 3, 2024

My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately – I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I’m seeing this. I’m supposed to stop this. And I couldn’t.

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May 3, 2024

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn’t have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

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