Amy Hill Hearth Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want my epitaph to be She Played It Safe. — Amy Hill Hearth

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be. — Amy Hill Hearth

How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage. — Amy Hill Hearth

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T. — Amy Hill Hearth

It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society") — Amy Hill Hearth

When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!
A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany — Amy Hill Hearth

A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville. — Amy Hill Hearth

Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all of us. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years) — Amy Hill Hearth

Anyway, they went and built this silly housing project, with us living right across the street from it. Some of the children from the housing project got into trouble. You can't just take people who don't have anything, don't know what they're doing, pack them in a bunch of buildings, and expect it's going to all work out somehow.
- Sadie — Amy Hill Hearth

Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day. — Amy Hill Hearth

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems. — Amy Hill Hearth

Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic. Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011 — Amy Hill Hearth

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.
Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany — Amy Hill Hearth

One person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world. — Amy Hill Hearth

All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

-Bessie — Amy Hill Hearth

I suppose there are two worlds-the small, protected one we carve out for ourselves, where we fret about a whole lot of nothing, and the other world, the real one, which comes knocking at the door, demanding to be let in and given a seat. — Amy Hill Hearth

I could see the genius in allowing future to evolve. You could create momentum. You could launch something and see where it goes. You couldn't line everything up, like so many dominoes, and make everything fall into place. — Amy Hill Hearth