Lionell Spruill Quotes & Sayings

We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn't the fact that they were primitive - the Bronze Age was primitive, too. What made the Dark Ages dark was the fact that so much knowledge had been lost, that so much known to the Greeks and Romans had been forgotten by the barbarian kingdoms that followed. — Paul Krugman

I'm sorry he's dead but I am happier, by far, that he lived. — Walter Mosley

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there. — Ben Affleck

Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If you have a Mexican accent, people look at you like, you know, where do you come from and why don't you go back to where you came from? So, even though I was born in the United States, I never felt at home in the United States. I never felt at home until I moved to the Southwest, where, you know, there's a mix of my culture with the U.S. culture, and that was why I lived in Texas for 25 years. — Sandra Cisneros

You never can tell
From a Minnipin's hide
What color he is
Down deep inside. — Carol Kendall