#AJVerdelle @bookstadon

“Only finished work ages well”

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#AJVerdelle

“My work at Princeton forced me to ask the question whether teaching this cohort of well-heeled, well-endowed Americans constituted a good use of my Black American time on earth.”

#MorganState #BaltimoreBooks @bookstodon

#AJVerdelle

“No clear trajectory. No specific directions. I had to do my homework and find my way. When you write, you have to motivate yourself. Nobody knows what you're doing. Nobody cares until the work is done. Nobody can enjoy a half-finished work. Not that many people can advise you. Not that many people think the choice to write is wise”

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#AJVerdelle

“There's no scarcity of #BlackGenius. If you believe there is, you don't have eyes.”

#AJVerdelle

“No clear trajectory. No specific directions. I had to do my homework and find my way. When you write, you have to motivate yourself. Nobody knows what you're doing. Nobody cares until the work is done. Nobody can enjoy a half-finished work. Not that many people can advise you. Not that many people think the choice to write is wise”

#AJVerdelle: “My high school job was French fries, but once in college, at the #UniversityOfChicago, I got my first amazing library job. At the beautiful and august Harper Library, deep in the interior of the U of C quad, I started working in the stacks and at the library desk, and I met the me I would become: A book person”

@bookstodon

#AJVerdelle’s #MissChloe:

“My grandparents believed themselves righteous as Americans.”

There is a whole book in those seven words.

(@ AVerdelle on the bird site 🐦)