"I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa."

-- Langston Hughes

#Night Quotes #Black Quotes #Depth Quotes

“I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and that I should throw out everything prior, or figure out a way to weave only the most important information back into the story, and keep the action moving forward. Wow. That was a really humbling experience. A real eye-opener. Made me realize there are so many aspects involved with telling a story.”
“One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.”
“You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?”
“I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.”
“There are some things, once they are done, that we can never question, because if we did, we wouldn't be able to go on. And we have to go on, every single day.”

Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Birthmarked”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
“There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess itâ€™s always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we donâ€™t evolve past that.”
“There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.”

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