14 Quotes by Patricia Smith

Between the tenets of those two men [W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington], a race strived to untangle its convoluted root, urged its whole self forward, and hurtled toward the door America had fought so hard to keep closed.

A whole people's tumble into raw, untested century began with one man, penning his serpentine sojourn up from slavery--I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but ... I must have been born somewhere and at some time. He began as another baby shoved directly into the wrong air.

I write you a letter that beginsWith I love you and ends with I love you andSomewhere in the middle is one goodbye forEvery hurt

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What the students didn't anticipate at the time is that interest rates in the last few years have gone way down. Now 6.8 percent as a fixed rate doesn't look so good.

She's encouraging in a sense that she brings out the best in people and you get to see a side of people that you just can't imagine you'd get to see of people.

One night she went to the restroom, and when I woke up she was walking into the wall. She couldn't find her place on the floor.

From time to time in my metro column, to create the desired impact or slam home a salient point, I attributed quotes to people who didn't exist.

This relief effort is going to go on a long time. If they can't give blood or money or help now, they can give later on.