Walter Mosley Quotes
Rather than living in a democracy, we are living in a benevolent oligarchy.
Walter Mosley, Author, The Harlem Book Fair, Book TV, C-SPAN, July 21, 2007
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This is a clever variation on the slogan of the Federalist party of early America. See {604769}
65 years later, this would become a major principle of conservatives, but it was a liberal President who seemed first to make this statement in a major address.
See {619285} for another of his quotes about the wealthy.
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 living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works. In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first black male to receive the honor.
