“ Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward. Paule Marshall
“ I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out. Paule Marshall
“ And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place over the course of his life and leading finally to the main event, which would be so anti-climatic, so u… Paule Marshall
