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William Faulkner9 quotes
The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951You can't understand it. You would have to be born there. — William Faulkner · 1936Poor man. Poor mankind. — William Faulkner · 1932Between grief and nothing I will take grief. — William Faulkner · 1939They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. — William Faulkner · 1942I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. — William Faulkner · 1950All 9 quotes →Tennessee Williams6 quotes
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams · 1957The desire to create is one of the strongest urges a human spirit can contain. It will always break through. — Tennessee Williams · 1975Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other. — Tennessee Williams · 1955Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. — Tennessee Williams · 1951We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. — Tennessee Williams · 1953We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal. — Tennessee Williams · 1953Richard Wright4 quotes
Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail. — Richard Wright · 1940Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling? — Richard Wright · 1940He knew that the moment he allowed what his life meant to enter fully into his consciousness, he would either kill himself or someone else. So he denied himself and acted tough. — Richard Wright · 1940I let the audience follow me, if it is interested. — Richard Wright · 1995Elvis Presley3 quotes
Wise men say
Only fools rush in
But I can't help
Falling in love with you — Elvis Presley · 1961A little less conversation, a little more action please. — Elvis Presley · 1968Well since my baby left me
Well I found a new place to dwell
Well it's down at the end of lonely street
At Heartbreak Hotel. — Elvis Presley · 1956Albert King1 quote
If it wasn't for bad luck
You know, I wouldn't have no luck at all — Albert King · 1967Gabriel Manigault1 quote
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. — Gabriel Manigault · 1884Ida B. Wells1 quote
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. — Ida B. Wells · 1892Oprah Winfrey1 quote
You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! — Oprah Winfrey · 2004Richard Ford1 quote
The words we use are the worlds we live in. — Richard Ford · 2014Tammy Wynette1 quote
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him,
Keep giving all the love you can. — Tammy Wynette · 1968