Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 19 (p. 292)
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”
“I guess you don’t need to agree on everything to be lovers.”
Source: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 31 (p. 87)
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 32 : Morning
Context: One of the ghosts — an old woman — beckoned, urging her to come close.
Then she spoke, and Mary heard her say:
"Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories."
That was all, and then she was gone. It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we’ve unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep. It was the dream she’d tried to describe to Atal, the night picture; but as Mary tried to find it again, it dissolved and drifted apart, just as these presences did in the open air. The dream was gone.
All that was left was the sweetness of that feeling, and the injunction to tell them stories.
“I don’t need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11.”
Press conference (29 July 2004), as quoted in "Searching for Spin" in The Nation" (29 July 2004) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040816/berman
Variant : You know I can’t tell you — I haven’t seen it. I don’t really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.
“I don’t think she told any lies. She just forgot to tell the whole truth.”
Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 263)
From a speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, D.C. (November 14, 1957) ; in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957, National Archives and Records Service, Government Printing Office, p. 818 :
1950s
Context: I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of "emergency" is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.
Source: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 1 (p. 8)
On incorporating various perspectives in her works in “Dael Orlandersmith Is a Poet of Life’s Complexity” https://www.americantheatre.org/2015/12/11/dael-orlandersmith-is-a-poet-of-lifes-complexity/ in American Theatre (2015 Dec 11)
Interview with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio Q (16 February 2011) http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/QTV_on_bol...2/ID=1886977325/.
“I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.”
Congressional testimony (2007)
