Orlane B21 Quotes & Sayings

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it. — Laila Ali

The folder thick enough to contain a hundred headaches. — Alessandra Torre

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things! — Oprah Winfrey

A friend argues that Americans battle between the "historical self" and the "self self." By this she means you mostly interact as friends with mutual interest and, for the most part, compatible personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning. Then you are standing face-to-face in seconds that wipe the affable smiles right from your mouths. What did you say? Instantaneously your attachment seems fragile, tenuous, subject to any transgression of your historical self. And though your joined personal histories are supposed to save you from misunderstandings, they usually cause you to understand all too well what is meant. — Claudia Rankine

THE ONLY DUMB QUESTION IS THE ONE THAT IS NOT ASKED — Marcia Lynn McClure

THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history. — Anita Shreve

If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past. — Robert Harling