30 quotes found
“We love because it's the only true adventure.”
“We love because it is the only true adventure.”
“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
“i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.”
“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.”
“If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.”
“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. ”
“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
“and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it”
“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
“I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Franklin had something to say about experience and fools, but even Franklin thought that a fool would l...”
“we used to talk all nightand do things alone togetherand ive begun(as a reaction to a feeling)to balancethe pleasure of lonelinessagainst the painof loving you”
“Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we cant drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we cant have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are ...”
“I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on timeBut then when I'm asleep I ...”
“and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic equations in your head why you had a basketball scholarship but you alwa...”
“The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.”
“His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of free menAnd the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-v...”
“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.”
“Today I am 65 years old. I still look good. I appreciate and enjoy my age. A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matte...”
“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.”
“I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's real...”
