Quotes About Hope

Clearing damp and gasping for breath. In the silence that followed, Baby Suggs, holy, offered up to them her great big heart. She did not tell them to clean up their lives or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it.

More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

Bodacious black Eves unredeemed by Mary, they are like panicked does leaping toward a sun that has finished burning off the mist and now pours its holy oil over the hides of game. God at their side, the men take aim. For Ruby.

This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If ever there came a morning when mercy and simple good fortune took to their heels and fled, grace alone might have to do.

a dream is just a nightmare with lipstick

You could get slaves to do anything at all, bear anything, if you gave them any hope that they could keep their children.

Tu espalda tiene un árbol. En flor. Me pregunto en qué estaría pensando Dios. Yo también he recibido mis buenos azotes pero no recuerdo nada como esto.

fingers into his socks, looking up the inside back of his coat. If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Sethe,' he says, 'me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Just Imagine. No illness. Ever. No pain. No aging or frailty of any kind. No loss or grief or tears. And obviously no more dying, not even if the stars shattered into motes and the moon disintegrated like a corpse beneath the sea.

Looking at Milkman in those nighttime talks, they yearned for something. Some word from him that would rekindle the dream and stop the death they were dying.

Fue una sombra la mayor parte de mi vida, una presencia que señalaba su propia ausencia, o tal vez la mía. Quién soy yo sin ella, esa niña desnutrida de ojos tristes que esperan. Cómo temblaba cuando nos escondimos de las paladas. Le tapé la cara, los ojos, con la esperanza de que no hubiera visto el pie que asomaba de la tumba

but the music, which he hoped would coat his nerve ends, only splayed them.

Ä°nsan hayallerin nas?l suya düÅŸtüÄŸüne iliÅŸkin hakikati öÄŸrenmenin peÅŸindeyse eÄŸer, asla bir hayalperestin sözüne inanmamal?d?r.

Ahora estaba convencido de que el afecto por ella había sido medicinal, como una aspirina. Efectivamente, tanto si se daba cuenta como si no, Lily desplazaba su desorden, su cólera y su vergüenza. Hasta el punto de que había llegado a convencerse de que el naufragio emocional estaba superado. En realidad, solo esperaba el momento más propicio para asomar

One by fire, one by water, two of what he had so intensely loved gone, he thought. He couldn't lose a third.

O Solomon don't leave me here.

She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine

We had dropped our seeds in our own little plot of black dirt just as Pecola's father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt. Our Innocence and faith were no more productive than his lust or despair.

And in the night, when my coughing was dry and tough, feet padded into the room, hands repinned the flannel, readjusted the quilt, and rested a moment on my forehead. So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die.

Umica ka hanu HOLD THE BREATH Be patient; don't give up.

Je me lèverai demain. extrait de la nouvelle Temps de Blues

Pish-posh, just doing my lot for the future of the world, you know. I'll sign off by saying, you know where to find me...