Reginald Dwayne Betts
"The idea, ultimately, is to develop a relationship with words that becomes central to your identity as a writer."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"Publishing should be secondary."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
"It's hard to write for bread. So do something else, too, and understand that the something else will also fuel your writing."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"Pure advocacy has an agenda that can derail writing because the world is often more complicated than advocacy allows."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"Know that a poem is published when it's read." (artist)
— Reginald Dwayne Betts (art & poem by Kathryn Apel)
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"Advocacy has an agenda in a way that art doesn't. But I do think they can co-exist."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"The question is always how to be good, I think, first. And then the politics of the person and the world they create influence the views of the readers, if they are lucky."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"As if we go to the page as lobotomized creatures who abandon all other issues in their lives to be writers. No, I think all writing has some advocacy in it. All the time."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"Advocacy is a challenge because it is—not because it might pervert writing, any more than love or sex or hope might pervert writing."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"I read somewhere that all biography is a lie, or at least that all biography is a single telling of a life when there can easily be a thousand different tellings."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"What I hope to do is be a part of this ocean of words that offers people something for which to wade in with their raft."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
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"[Reading] became magic, it became a means to an end. It became the way in which I experienced the world, but more importantly, I think, it became the way in which I learned about what it means to be human and to be flawed and to want things that you can't have."
— Reginald Dwayne Betts