Why did you need to see my ID?” “This is an exclusive service, Mr. Orlean,” she said with no chink of humanity in her face. “And we like to know exactly who it is we’re dealing with.” “Oh,” I said. “So it wasn’t because of my clothes or my race?” “The lower races come in all colors, Mr. Orlean. And none of them get back here.

— Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley Quotes

Freedom for us has always been dangerous. Freedom for us has been a crime as far back as our oldest memories. And so whenever we’re feeling liberation we know that there’s somebody nearby with a rope and a collar, a shotgun and a curse.

— Walter Mosley

It’s a disheartening feeling when you can’t stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.

— Walter Mosley

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

Everybody was screaming for joy. That’s what children do – they scream because life is just too much for them but they don’t know it yet.

— Walter Mosley

But I wasn’t there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

— Walter Mosley

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses.

— Walter Mosley

Her experience in life was limited and so she fought battles in an imaginary arena.

— Walter Mosley

People are so afraid of dying that they don’t even live the little bit of life they have.

— Walter Mosley

Making friends has always been hard for me.

— Walter Mosley

One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.

— Walter Mosley

When I was a kid,” I said, “I thought that if I worried about every way I could possibly die, then none of them would happen and I’d live forever.

— Walter Mosley

Yeah. If you’ve never been knocked down, then you’ve never been in a fight.

— Walter Mosley

My father once told me that a great man walks the back roads. He does what’s right every day and no one knows it but those lucky enough to be loved by him.

— Walter Mosley

Why did you need to see my ID?” “This is an exclusive service, Mr. Orlean,” she said with no chink of humanity in her face. “And we like to know exactly who it is we’re dealing with.” “Oh,” I said. “So it wasn’t because of my clothes or my race?” “The lower races come in all colors, Mr. Orlean. And none of them get back here.

— Walter Mosley

Men are weak, Mr. Rawlins. They’re strong of arm but frail in their hearts. They need forgiveness more than women do.

— Walter Mosley

Of course, I always knew that there was no real difference between the races, but still, it was nice to see an example of that equality.

— Walter Mosley

The first thing a black man and a poor man learns is that trouble is all he’s got so that’s what he has to work with.

— Walter Mosley

Sometimes you’re hoping that things will be different, that men and women will change over the years and become those good, if hard, folks that the preachers talk about. But it never changes. And if something does get good for a while you could be sure that it will turn sour before you have time to get any real pleasure.

— Walter Mosley

You know, the undersized genius had said, ain’t no way in the world that black folks could’a done enough bad to call all them centuries’a pain down on our heads.

— Walter Mosley

Like most drunks he thought that if he took longer to think he’d come up with the thoughts of a sober man.

— Walter Mosley
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