Wallace Thurman Quotes

#1. To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

Victor Hugo

#2. You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Gertrude Stein

#3. 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

Wallace Thurman

#4. If you're on the top guy, you're going to get some balls thrown your way.

Johnathan Joseph

#5. The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order ... Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.

Wallace Thurman

#6. A hand fought best when it made a fist.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#7. We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

Wallace Thurman

#8. If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

Seth Godin

#9. I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

Tamsin Egerton

#10. If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.

Wallace Thurman

#11. Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was obeying orders and trying not to be killed in any of the variety of horrible ways open to me.

Robertson Davies

#12. I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.

Wallace Thurman

#13. Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

Wallace Thurman

#14. I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full ... there's something romantic about it.

Blake Lively

#15. Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#16. I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

Wallace Thurman