John Edgar Wideman Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Fall, Enemy

  John Edgar Wideman (1996). “The Cattle Killing”

• When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Basketball, Dream, Air

• That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Language, Being Human

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Stars, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers. That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is. There is no American or Frenchhistory. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Distance, Fighting

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