Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

- Marita Golden

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

- Marita Golden

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

- Marita Golden

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

- Marita Golden

We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgi…

- Marita Golden

I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even t…

- Marita Golden

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession …

- Marita Golden

My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, o…

- Marita Golden

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

- Marita Golden