Four Quotes

What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.

Discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I’ve known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.

It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of “an abundance or surplus” arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.

The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They’re the base on which the harmonies were built.

With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and D strings isn’t there.

The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred.

The real us is pure love, pure light