Delany Sisters Quotes

#1. Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all of us. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years)

Amy Hill Hearth

#2. Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

Olivia Hussey

#3. And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

E.L. Doctorow

#4. Everything that's worth having hurts in some way or other.

Vina Delmar

#5. Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.
Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany

Amy Hill Hearth

#6. The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.

William Laud

#7. When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!
A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany

Amy Hill Hearth

#8. Tex?" I whispered.
"Yeah?"
"Enemies or lovers right now?"
He sighed and kissed my head. "Both, we'll always be both.

Rachel Van Dyken

#9. Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Stephen King

#10. Opening/Starters are the inspirational pattern of Transformation.

Gia Combs-Ramirez

#11. Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

Amiri Baraka