Paule Marshall

Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall is an American author, whose novels "emphasize the need for black Americans to reclaim their African heritage"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 April 1929
gone understanding
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.
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None of us wants to deny anybody the ability to read.
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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.
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They were intended to be the fastest amphibian aircraft in the world. That's a big appeal.
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You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.
running home years
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.
children past light
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
sometimes
But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.
running light white-privilege
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.
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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.
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A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.
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We started getting a lot of guys involved and more touches and we scored goals, but just not enough to overcome giving up 18.
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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.