"I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em..."

-- Richard Wright

#Life Quotes #Alive Quotes #World Quotes

“I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.”
“I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.”
“Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.”
“If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.”

Source : "Precarious Beauty" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.
“When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.”
“I could endure hard times thanks to my fans that stood by me. I decided that I wouldn't disappoint them.”
“Power cedes nothing without a demand.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.”

Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

You may also like:

Chester Himes
Writer
Claude McKay
Writer
James A. Baldwin
Novelist
Langston Hughes
Poet
Nikki Giovanni
Writer
Ralph Ellison
Novelist
Toni Morrison
Novelist
William Faulkner
Writer
Zora Neale Hurston
Anthropologist