Quotes from Meridel Le Sueur

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

I hope you will be a warrior and fierce for change so all can live.

Survival is a form of resistance.

He will lift up the limp bodies of the rabbits and show me how he caught them square between the eyes, and the bright bodies of male and female pheasants with shot in the breast and their necks hanging broken and their eyes half open in the voluptuous death he loves. He will be a knife leaning above me as he kisses me.

I saw the bodies bearing the mark of their oppression, of their stolen labor, and now their holy dead. Their bodies were hieroglyphs of their exploitation, their blood and bodies taken, their lungs turned to silica stone.

Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

I am luminous with age.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

They never die, who have the future in them.