Amanda Hara Quotes & Sayings

You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the stifling summers because the spring is lush and pastel sprinkled, because winter is merciful and brief, because corn bread and sweet tea and fried chicken are every bit as vital to a Sunday as getting dressed up for church, and because any southerner worth their salt says please and thank you. It's soft air and summer vines, pine woods and fat homegrown tomatoes. It's pulling the fruit right off a peach tree and letting the juice run down your chin. It's a closeted and profound appreciation for our neighbors in Alabama who bear the brunt of the Bubba jokes. The South gets in your blood and nose and skin bone-deep. I am less a part of the South than it is part of me. It's a romantic notion, being overcome by geography. But we are all a little starry-eyed down here. We're Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara and Rosa Parks all at once. — Amanda Kyle Williams

Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness. — Pearl Zhu

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere. — Marcel Duchamp

Biology is destiny only for girls. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. It is the control center of most homes-more ubiquitous and more controlling than Orwell's Big Brother — R. Kent Hughes

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. — Henry David Thoreau

Precedent goes in support of justice. — Sherrilyn Kenyon