Top 15 Palmettos Quotes
#1. Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
#2. It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.
#3. With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.
#4. The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.
#5. I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.
#6. Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.
#7. Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
#8. There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week
#9. I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.
#10. If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.
#11. An unhappy marriage is neither your business nor your concern.
#12. The only thing over which we have any control whatsoever is the very next decision we make.
#13. Than appreciating the calm voice of Charleston during an evening walk along the Battery with Fort Sumter off in the distance, the great white houses at one's back, palmettos rattling their leaves in a sea breeze.
#14. I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.
#15. If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children - more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter - I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
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