Ruth Samuels > Ruth's Quotes

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”
― T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
― Octavia E. Butler

“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really.”
― Maya Angelou

“If you walk through life and don't help anybody, you haven't had much of a life”
― Fred Hampton