Working Class Writer Quotes

#1. 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.

Marian Wright Edelman

#2. Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

John Leguizamo

#3. Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.

Annie Dillard

#4. Money isn't everything.'The only people who say that are people who have enough money to pay the rent.

Janet Evanovich

#5. It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

Stokely Carmichael

#6. True freedom lies within how and if we choose to fly,
Perhaps I need to focus on flying,

Nicole Renee Wyatt

#7. Sometimes I think the only difference between the two groups is that kids have legitimate excuses for their ignorance while adults just invent them.

Kyra Davis

#8. Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

Richelle Mead

#9. I live for the moments that won't die in my memory.

Jenim Dibie

#10. Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

Jed Rubenfeld

#11. The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise.

Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

#12. As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep you excited, because they'll see Waterfront, and they'll want to talk about it.

Eva Marie Saint

#13. I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

Joe Wright

#14. That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer