Marita Golden

I am a stranger to half measures.

— Marita Golden

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

— Marita Golden

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

— Marita Golden

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

— Marita Golden

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

— Marita Golden

“My life is too important to share with someone who can't understand it.”

— marita golden

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

— Marita Golden

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and…

— Marita Golden

Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and…

— Marita Golden

“We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had…

— Marita Golden

My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see…

— Marita Golden

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open…

— Marita Golden

The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as…

— Marita Golden

I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers,…

— Marita Golden

We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black…

— Marita Golden