Marita Golden Quotes

• Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

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  Racism, Viruses, Cures

  Marita Golden (2011). “And Do Remember Me”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

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  Educational, Real, Reading

  Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

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  Believe, Survival, Tomorrow

  Marita Golden (1987). “Migrations of the Heart”

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

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  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.

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  Friends, Baby, Husband

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.32, Anchor

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• Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

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  Writing, Humanity, Novelists

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• We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

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  Loyalty, Daughter, Real

  Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor

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• I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

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  Motherhood, Wire, Sometimes

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• My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.

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  Mother, Reading, Writing

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• I am a stranger to half measures.

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  Half, Stranger, Half Measures

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

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  Father, Important, Blame

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• Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.

  Marita Golden

  Book, Reading, Race

  Marita Golden, Susan Shreve (2011). “Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race”, p.2, Anchor

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• To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

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  Mother, Father, Stories

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.5, Anchor

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• Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

  Marita Golden

  Life, Love Is, Smooth Sailing

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