James Green famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and say, "Delis, will you 'low Jim walk down the street with me?" My mammy say, "All right, Jim, you be a good boy," and dat de las' time I ever heard her speak, or ever see her. We walks down whar de houses grows close together and pretty soon comes to de slave market. I ain't seed it 'fore, but when marster Williams says, "Git up on de block," I got a funny feelin', and I knows what has happened.
-- James Green

#Friday #Stars #Block
John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
-- James Green

#Voice #Needs #Calling
As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.
-- James Green

#Long #Christ #Wanted
Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.
-- James Green

#Important #Who We Are
You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.
-- James Green

#Two #Stronger #Hurricanes
We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.
-- James Green

#Country #Expression #Important
Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.
-- James Green

#Growing Up #School #Talent
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.
-- James Green

#Growing Up #Virginia #People
Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.
-- James Green

#Airports #Cities #Kansas City

I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.
It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...
I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today. ~Jessop
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

James Green famous quotes

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