Wallace Thurman Quotes

I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

It was the way of Emma Lou always to create her worlds within her own mind without taking under consideration the fact that other people and other elements, not contained within herself, would also have to aid in their molding.

Perhaps if she were to live with a homey type of family they could introduce her to “the right sort of people.

Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us. Surely, God who let manna fall from the heavens so that the holy children of Israel might eat, will not let the equally holy children of Niggeratti Manor die from the want of a little gin. Children, let us pray.

Their motto must be “Whiter and whiter every generation,” until the grandchildren of the blue veins could easily go over into the white race and become assimilated so that problems of race would plague them no more.

too busy in this respect to be violently aroused by problems of race unless economic factors precipitated matters.

At the core of this movement were Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, Countee Cullan, Nella Larsen, Jessie Remon Fauset, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, and Zora Neale Hurston.