"The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever."

-- Rod Blackhurst

#Forever Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.”

Source : Nikki Grimes (2003). “Bronx Masquerade”, p.42, Penguin
“everybody has a story to tell”
“Kindness is virtue itself.”
“It is dangerous to live in a secure world.”

Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.200, Faber & Faber
“If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.”
“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
“In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.”
“We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

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