"I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way."

-- Anne Enright

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing”

Source : "God bless youthful bastard bravery". Interview with Ben Kopel, logger.believermag.com. October 23, 2013.
“And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.”
“We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.”

Source : "Dilma Rousseff Wins Brazil's Presidential Election". www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2010.
“I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.”
“And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.”
“Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?”
“Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.”

Source : "Alice in Walkerland: The “PBS American Masters”". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 10, 2014.
“I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?”

Source : "I Got Rhythm" (song) (1930)

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