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Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.
I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.
It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.
Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.