Paule Marshall

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite…

— Paule Marshall

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and…

— Paule Marshall

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive.…

— Paule Marshall

But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.

— Paule Marshall

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.

— Paule Marshall

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

— Paule Marshall

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is…

— Paule Marshall

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three…

— Paule Marshall

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

“And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place…

— Paule Marshall

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better…

— Paule Marshall

“He was one of those old people who give the impression of having undergone a lifetime trial by fire which they somehow…

— Paule Marshall