Barbara Neely Quotes & Sayings

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before. — Barbara Neely

Maybe his stuff was so good it made her think she could fly! — Barbara Neely

Love and sex, honey. Either one can make you do the damndest things. The two combined will make you a sure 'nough fool. — Barbara Neely

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview. — Barbara Neely

Blanche stared at Emmeline's door for a few moments, bristling with the desire to knock and trying to conquer her natural inclination to defy the voice of authority. It was one of the reasons she had not lasted in the waitressing, telephone sales, clerking, and typing jobs she'd tried over the years. — Barbara Neely

The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we're in our thirties. — Barbara Neely

In this town, white politicians and black ministers seemed to go together like tears and tissues. At election time, the pols got religion and came looking for the blessings of black ministers as a way to get black votes without providing the kinds of services to black communities that they at least promised to East Boston and Charlestown and the other mostly white Boston neighborhoods. — Barbara Neely

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look. — Barbara Neely

They jealous 'cause you got the night in you. Some people got night in 'em, some got morning, others, like me and your mama, got dusk. But it's only them that's got night can become invisible. People what got night in 'em can step into the dark and poof - disappear! Go any old where they want. Do anything. Ride them stars up there, like as not. — Barbara Neely

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air. — Barbara Neely

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be. — Barbara Neely