Wallace Thurman Quotes
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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Hiding is for amateurs.
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Please write that they were really, really nice - extremely nice - at Immigration. The court where they swore you in, the people were beautiful.
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For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
