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… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes,… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward. — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness. — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
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… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
“And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place over the… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse,… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
“He was one of those old people who give the impression of having undergone a lifetime trial by fire which they somehow managed to… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
