My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her. - Paule Marshall
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
- 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
I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .… - Paule Marshall
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .…
A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to c… - Paule Marshall
A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to c…
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 do… - Paule Marshall
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 do…
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
We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes…
Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of … - Paule Marshall
Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of …
But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward. - Paule Marshall
But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.
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 forward. - 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 can go forward.
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