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> [Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/perhaps-she-was-both-child-and-woman-darkness-and-light-past-and/)

[Paule Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paule-marshall/)

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## More by Paule Marshall

> [We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/we-live-surrounded-by-white-images-and-white-in-this-world-is/)

[Paule Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paule-marshall/)

> [Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/perhaps-she-was-both-child-and-woman-darkness-and-light-past-and/)

[Paule Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paule-marshall/)

> [Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/once-a-great-wrong-has-been-done-it-never-dies-people-speak-the-words/)

[Paule Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paule-marshall/)

> [But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/but-sometimes-it-s-necessary-to-go-back-before-you-can-go-forward/)

[Paule Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paule-marshall/)

> [I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/i-question-whether-i-want-to-be-integrated-into-america-as-it-stands/)

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> [A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/a-silenced-haiti-has-once-again-found-its-literary-voice/)

[Paule Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paule-marshall/)

> [I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/i-realise-that-it-is-fashionable-now-to-dismiss-the-traditional-novel/)

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> [My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/my-very-first-lessons-in-the-art-of-telling-stories-took-place-in-the/)

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> [Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/sometimes-a-person-has-to-go-back-really-back-to-have-a-sense-an-2/)

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> [“And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/and-in-a-way-this-was-how-he-had-come-to-see-his-death-as-a-series-of/)

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> [A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/a-person-can-run-for-years-but-sooner-or-later-he-has-to-take-a-stand/)

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> [“He was one of those old people who give the impression of having undergone a lifetime trial by fire which they somehow managed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paule-marshall/he-was-one-of-those-old-people-who-give-the-impression-of-having/)

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