Latest Tillie Olsen Quotes from Interviews

• I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.

  Tillie Olsen

  Leaving, World, Want

  Source: progressive.org

• It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

  Tillie Olsen

  Needs, Lifetime, Terrible

  Source: progressive.org

• The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

  Tillie Olsen

  Forever, Degradation, Facts

  Source: progressive.org

• Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in a time where we have so many different voices. We have a much richer literature than we've ever had, and we can know America so much better.

  Tillie Olsen

  Thinking, Voice, America

  Source: progressive.org

• I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

  Tillie Olsen

  Skin Color, Dna, Race

  Source: progressive.org