There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. – Coco Chanel

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. – Toni Morrison

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. – Virginia Woolf

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. – Virginia Woolf