Walter Mosley Black Quotations

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes.

What I want to do is give people who've been there a chance to recreate that world and those who've haven't been there a chance to create it, ... For a lot of people, it's an alien land, the world of black Los Angeles.

There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world.

It's a black erotic novel 25 percent of it is explicit sex,

I'm talking about black male heroes, ... I'm not the only one doing this but there's not a big genre of black male heroes, who aren't caricatures.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.