6 Quotes & Sayings By Kekla Magoon

Kekla Magoon is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels, The Last Reel, The Loss of E.T. and From the Corner of the Oval Room. Her short stories have been published in The Iowa Review, The Sun, The Seattle Review, Ploughshares, and other literary magazines. She has received numerous awards including the Pushcart Prize for Fiction for her story "The Statue in the Forest," a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing, a James Michener Center Fellowship for creative nonfiction, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in creative nonfiction Read more

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. When she is not writing she enjoys painting, traveling, boating on the Hudson River, dancing salsa with her husband at their community center in Yonkers, or training dogs to sniff out explosives.

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Anyone who can see will see you beautiful. Kekla Magoon
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In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that. Kekla Magoon
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People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to. Kekla Magoon
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If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters. Kekla Magoon
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The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature. Kekla Magoon