#midwest

All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the soft Persian rug that led to the staircase in my father’s home. In the glow of lightning the dancing trees are illuminated but I see my mother in the glow of candlelight, spinning, twirling, her hair fanned out behind her. It is falling over me, saturating my thoughts, and I cannot. I cannot let it in. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#dance #gwenn-wright #midwest #mystery #saga

In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40). ↗

— Martha Southgate

#midwest #natural-hair #self-esteem #white-supremacy #nature

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#comes #had #hard #hard worker #her

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#coast #direct #east #east coast #get

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#child #companies #did #exist #fact

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#away #being #camp #first #first time

I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#difference #gay #i #know #life

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#city #culture #food #go #iowa

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact. ↗

— Scott Walker

#future #i #impact #into #like

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#love