“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, book Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston74

American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891–1960

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) American painter

Quote of Mitchel in Marcia Tucker's Whitney catalogue (1974); as cited in Jane Livingstone‘ in The Paintings of Joan Mitchel, ed. Jane Livingstone, Joan Mitchell, Linda Nochlin, p. 35
1975 - 1992

“You will never see these lights
Glowing in your nights
If you don't know
And there are roses growing in the snow.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

Roses in the Snow

“It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes book Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner (1859)
Context: You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them. It didn't seem much to them to condemn a few thousand millions of people to purgatory or worse for a mistake of judgment. They didn't know what it was to have a child look up in their faces and say 'Father!' It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy.