Marita Golden Quotes

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Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

Marita Golden
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

Marita Golden
A secret, she felt, depended for its value on the everpresent possibility of discovery.

Marita Golden
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

Marita Golden
Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.

Marita Golden
Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

Marita Golden
Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.

Marita Golden
After a season of fitful migration, I had come home. To rest against the bedrock inside myself. I had wandered. Will wander still___and will take home with me wherever I go.

Marita Golden
I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

Marita Golden
A legacy is a contract that obligates the recipient to rise to meet the best that the legacy symbolizes.

Marita Golden