"The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about himself. As if it's only rich white people or Republicans or conservatives who have this disease."

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Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

George Pelecanos

#Order Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”

Source : Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”
“Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.”
“Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.”
“The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.”
“The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.”
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

Source : Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.4, Vintage
“I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.”
“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.”

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