"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."

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Source : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.206, Feminist Press at CUNY

Paule Marshall

#Running Quotes #Home Quotes #Years Quotes

“Unlike scandal-monger Ed Kleinâ€™s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halperâ€™s study is juicy and gossipy, yet scrupulously researched, drawing on numerous on-the-record conversations (as well as many not-for-attribution interviews) with prominent Democrats and Clinton insiders, past and present.”
“No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.”
“Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.”
“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”
“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.”
“There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.”
“Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.”
“I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.”

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