Quotes about Reflection

This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That's our job!" Toni Morrison

My melancholy thoughts are back. But I still love the idea of love.

Funny how you lose sight of some things and memory others.

Thank God for life, True Belle said, and thank life for death.

THERE IS a loneliness that can be rocked.

thank God I ain't never had one of them graveyard loves.

I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.

It was as though he no longer needed to drink to forget whatever it was he could not remember. Now he could not remember that he had ever forgotten anything. Perhaps that was why for the first time after that old day in France he was beginning to miss the presence of other people. Shadrack had improved enough to feel lonely. If he was lonely before, he didn't know because the noise he kept up, the roaring, the busyness protected him from knowing it.

Maybe I am different now, Twyla. But you're not. You're the same little state kid who kicked a poor old black lady when she was down on the ground. You kicked a black lady and you have the nerve to call me a bigot.

Nothing will undo the accident; nothing will immediately repair the jar, so what is the urgency of the beating? To teach a lesson or to enjoy it?

She had not lived by the sea all those years, listened to the wharfman's songs all that time, to spend her life in the soundless cave of Elihue's mind.

The impulse to do and revere art is an ancient need - whether on cave walls, on ones own body, a cathedral or religious rite, we hunger for a way to articulate who we are and what we mean.