Paule Marshall Quotations

We started getting a lot of guys involved and more touches and we scored goals, but just not enough to overcome giving up 18.

Many small companies simply don't want to get bigger. We did a case study on one company in which the owner had a chance to buy out a competitor and decided against it. He told me, 'I'd rather pack my kids' lunch and walk them to school.' He just felt his life was a lot better if he stayed small.

One-and-a-half to two weeks above the normal summer maximum is all we need and widespread bleaching is going to occur.

None of us wants to deny anybody the ability to read.

He's a great guy and very dependable. He's a good chef, and he knows quality and at our company, we only hire the big guns.

We're not sure right now exactly where IM fits in our freight business, but we're adopting it because IM offers yet another channel through which our customers can access Yellow Freight. That's a good thing.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them -- before they can go forward.

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

They were intended to be the fastest amphibian aircraft in the world. That's a big appeal.

It's a beautiful aircraft. I've flown in it. He's put a lot into it, a lot of high-quality materials. It shows.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love . . . but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them.

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.