"Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish"

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Source : Wallace Thurman (2013). “Infants of the Spring”, p.142, Courier Corporation

Wallace Thurman

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Thank God Quotes

“A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.”
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.”
“We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.”
“There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.”
“Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.”
“In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.”
“Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.”

Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks
“What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.”

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