"I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow."

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Source : Louise Meriwether (2002). “Daddy was a Number Runner”, p.111, Feminist Press at CUNY

Louise Meriwether

#Running Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Turns Quotes

“I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.”
“Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.”
“I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.”
“I was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]”
“When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”
“I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.”
“Ideas are only as good as their execution”
“Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.”

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