Walter Mosley
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"Walter Ellis Mosley" is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts, Los Angeles, California/Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; they are perhaps his most popular works.

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You're kinda like the shifting sand in a way.

You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed.

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

It's 1966, Easy has to come to San Francisco.

There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world.

The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world (to be published). You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed. I'm upset about Katrina. I'm upset that our country follows a conservative economic program that allows poor people to lose their safety net.

He's not wild in the way that he once was. He wants a deeper commitment or relationship with a woman.