-David Madden
"Go to the art."
-David Madden
"A ship blows up, something definitely went wrong!"
-Dr. Thomas Brommage
“I went into the church, partly because I had been driven there all my life … there was no place for me to go ... But, I was so afraid of everything else that, in a way, I ended up with a devil I knew.”
– James Baldwin on the church and his time as a preacher from age 14 to 17
“I got the Bible and the Gun. One of these is gon’ work”
– Preacher, in "Blues For Mister Charlie" by James Baldwin
"You know who you look like? Antwoine Fisher!"
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Great prompts for your own writing, Osa. Try Brommage's quote for a way into your own writing. Take off the exclamation point and begin with that line. Then, describe--in your cinematic way--one such explosion.
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