Quotes from 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 change things there.

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.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place over the course of his life and leading finally to the main event, which would be so anti-climatic, so undramatic (a sudden violent seizure in his long abused heart, a quick massive flooding of the brain) it would go unnoticed. It was the small deaths occurring over an entire lifetime that took the greater toll.

A country where everybody always running from the next body feeling they's better. But mark my words, one of these days they gon all run out of where-to-run. ~ Ulene

A country where everybody always running from the next body feeling they's better. But mark my words, one of these days they gon all run out of where-to-run.