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- All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop…
- We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
- Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
- Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other…
- I don't do the things other people call "play."
- The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the…
- If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by…
- I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
- In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
- Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
- I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that…
- Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but…
- Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here,…
- Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction…
- It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
- There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
- In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she…
- Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if…
- He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour