Melanie > Melanie's Quotes

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.”
― June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”
― Edwidge Danticat

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson