#gone

Debt Chauffeur, that's my name for him now, wants to marry me. He asked me down on bended knee, and I would have been honored - except he wants us to live in London, and he wants me to live white. I crowed at that. I laughed so hard and not a tear came. He couldn't understand it. I don't often think on how white I look; it's always been a question of how colored I feel, and I feel plenty colored. He said that no one in London will know that I'm supposed to be colored. And I said I am colored, colored black, the way I talk, the way I cook, the way I do most everything, and he said but you don't have to be. ↗

— Alice Randall

#born-into-slavery #marriage-proposal #mulatto #the-wind-done-gone #marriage

It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret. ↗

— Sue Miller

#love #secrets #sue-miller #while-i-was-gone #forgiveness

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler #freedom

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#gone #government #his #lives #man

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues. ↗

— Robin Yount

#coached #conner #contracts #gone #high

I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#build #feedback #get #going #gone

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#bookshelf #feeling #gone #i #i think

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album. ↗

— Marc Almond

#before #cell #come #gone #i

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

#attractions #away #been #everything #fundamental

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#feel #gone #i #i am #me