Native Son Key Quotes & Sayings

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. — Martin Sheen

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime. — Charles Barkley

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain

Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'. — Neale Donald Walsch

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

How much damage will have been done before we act? — John McCain

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. — James Wolcott

The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2. — Emily Giffin

So you like to stretch the truth?" he asked me. "Stretch, fold, spindle, staple or cut, whatever it takes to get it to fit just right". — Neil Leckman

I'm not mean to everybody. I'm only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine. — Alexandra Engellmann

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. — Bill Ayers

Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher's stone, it sublimates, precipitates, and quickens. House of Keys, it opens all our darkest doors. May the Pol Pot Persons of all genders and denominations take heed: to create a fictional world with rigor and passion, to imagine a character of any sex, place, time, or color and make it palpitate and quiver, to catapult it into the deepest forests of our most luminous reveries, is to commit an act of empathy. To write a novel of the imagination is a gesture of tenderness; to enter the body of a book is a fearless act and generous. — Rikki Ducornet