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The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

Charles R. Johnson

He was traveling light again, for the long, lurid dream of multiplicity and separateness, the very belief in an "I" that suffered and strained to affect the world, dissolved, and for the first time he felt like a dreamer gently roused from sleep and forgetfulness.

Charles R. Johnson

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

Charles R. Johnson

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

Charles R. Johnson

The wretchedness of being colonized was not that slavery created feelings of guilt and indebtedness... ; nor that it created a long, lurid dream of multiplicity and separateness, which it did indeed create, but the fact that men had epidermalized Being.

Charles R. Johnson

Was sorcery a gift given to a few, like poetry? Did the Lord come, lift you up, then drop you forever?

Charles R. Johnson

Charles R. Johnson

Charles R. Johnson

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Born: April 23, 1948 (age 78)

Bio: Charles Richard Johnson is an African-American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation.

Known for:

Middle Passage (1990)
The 12 Minute MBA for Doctors (2001)

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