We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and s...
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we ...
I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
Is it really true that the only good thing a Blackman can offer in a relationship with a white woman is thunderous sex? Of course, sex plays a vital healing role in every loving relationship. That is a fact of life. But, as we discover in the story o...
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the leas...
Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, th...
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.
Sometimes the only way to keep love, is to let it go.
Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.
Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end.
You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.
Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
I drink coffee with a spoon. It’s like soup, only less sleepy.
If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.
Love can only be found through the act of loving.
The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.
