American Author Quotes

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in — the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

under a soprano sky, a woman sings,
lovely as chandeliers.

Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez
One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Richard Zimler
Richard Zimler
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

Statistics show that you have nothing to worry about.

The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.

Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

We are striving to forge our union with purpose.
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.

Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman
We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

María Irene Fornés
María Irene Fornés
We get mad, sure! Like ice an' snow an' thunder an' lightning storm, but they don't hurt the wheat down in the ground any.' Mom picked up her whitewash brush and slapped it against the rough boards. 'Yolochka, you don't know how love is yet.'

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That's why we keep painting it.

The moon drowsed between the trees like a great yellow moth.

Hallie Erminie Rives
Hallie Erminie Rives
So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere...

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

Summertime
And the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin',
And the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy's rich,
And your ma is good lookin';
So hush, little baby,
Don' yo' cry.

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.