Quotes by Walter Mosley

“That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now ...”

“I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.”

“Thats how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a c...”

“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afra...”

“There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.”

“Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too.""I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer.""She said that after all she hear...”

“I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.”

“The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.”

“I dont give a fuck what youre trying to do or what you want. Id send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.”

“The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...”

“It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things becau...”

“He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the worlds excuses.”

“We got a call from across the street that a black woman had broken into this house.And you were going to arrest her without even knocking on the door?We had to secure her first. Um. Are you okay, m...”

“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...”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicid...”

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”

“That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a ...”

“I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.”

“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afra...”