To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost ev…

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barre…

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capab…

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners ha…

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would…

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, …

- Sarah-Patton Boyle

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

- Sarah-Patton Boyle