We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol… — 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 vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that… — 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
