Quotes & Sayings About Pecola Being Ugly

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix. — Phoebe Snow

My mouth drained of moisture. I never realized a threat could double as an enticement. — A.G. Howard

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen. — Jill Soloway

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little. — Andy Grove

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home. — Nikki Grimes

I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain. — Heather Nova