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There is so little time. We need to make every moment count. — Shannon Delany

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black. — Samuel R. Delany

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me? — Sarah Louise Delany

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit. — Samuel R. Delany

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow. — Samuel R. Delany

The only value objects have is what people are willing to pay to own them. — Vicki Delany

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health. — Samuel R. Delany

Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently. — Samuel R. Delany

I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated. — Samuel R. Delany

To live within the tethers of desire is - again and again - to be shocked at how far they have come loose from reason — Samuel R. Delany

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother. — Dana Delany

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art. — Samuel R. Delany

Rydra, when I look at the night and stars, it is only a passive act, but you are active even watching, and halo the stars with more luminous flame. — Samuel R. Delany

It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's — Samuel R. Delany

Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip. — Samuel R. Delany

He laughed. So you see, I'm not a nut. Not a real one, anyway. I haven't been a real nut in a long time. — Samuel R. Delany

Things have made you what you are," she recited "What you are will make you what you will become. — Samuel R. Delany

All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life
resumes. — Samuel R. Delany

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand. — Samuel R. Delany

She cut through worlds, and joined them - that's the important part - so that both became bigger. — Samuel R. Delany

I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There — Samuel R. Delany

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else. — Samuel R. Delany

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.
Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany — Amy Hill Hearth

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

They were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice. — Samuel R. Delany

If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful. — Samuel R. Delany

Most people here have spent most of their time someplace else. You learn — Samuel R. Delany

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land — Martin Delany

Bellona used to be a pretty good town. — Samuel R. Delany

I don't think we get too many choices in life ... I like knowing - and I like you knowing - I chose you. — Shannon Delany

In the cups, one after another, glistening disks rose, black without translucence. — Samuel R. Delany

Remember that you create your world. It's not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it. — Dana Delany

To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer. — Samuel R. Delany

You give me so much pleasure, why should I ever want to hurt you? — Samuel R. Delany

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman. — Samuel R. Delany

Will sex between humans ever lose its endlessly repeated history? — Samuel R. Delany

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. — Martin Delany

You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes. — Shannon Delany

It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now. — Samuel R. Delany

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized. — Dana Delany

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion. — Samuel R. Delany

Folks can't take advantage of you if you're doing what you want to. — Sarah L. Delany

So howled out for the world to give him a name.
The indark answered with wind. — Samuel R. Delany

If people are busy living out myths you don't like, leave them to it. — Samuel R. Delany

You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom — Samuel R. Delany

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun! — Dana Delany

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles. — Samuel R. Delany

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer. — Samuel R. Delany

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself. — Samuel R. Delany

Sometimes we do not know what role we play until it is thrust upon us and we can only then do our best to carry it off. — Shannon Delany

In our dreams we are always young. — Sarah Louise Delany

What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions ... These things are also what makes a man a monster. — Shannon Delany

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on. — Samuel R. Delany

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are. — Samuel R. Delany

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts). — Samuel R. Delany

Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman. — Samuel R. Delany

Suggestion is a literary strategy. — Samuel R. Delany

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. — Sarah Louise Delany

Down, everybody! Down on all fours! We're going to show you our new step! Like this: just swing your up and - — Samuel R. Delany

I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I'm here. — Samuel R. Delany

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it! — Samuel R. Delany

I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want! — Annie Elizabeth Delany

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. — Martin Delany

If you are angle, I am complement. If you are circle, I am circumscribed. — Samuel R. Delany

Every people should be originators of their own destiny. — Martin Delany

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. — Samuel R. Delany

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life. — Sarah Louise Delany

Just because you're damaged doesn't mean you must damage others. You have choices. We all make them every day. — Shannon Delany

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes. — Samuel R. Delany

Time was short, as Pietr so frequently reminded me. Maybe we all needed to live fiercely.
And love courageously. — Shannon Delany

Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life. — Samuel R. Delany

He shrugged. Confusion was like struggling to find the proper way to sit inside his skin. — Samuel R. Delany

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us. — Annie Elizabeth Delany

The rich are always enamored of the ancient. — Samuel R. Delany

You sure are quick to strip, boy," Dad said, clearly
disapproving. "Lemme get this straight. — Shannon Delany

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next. — Samuel R. Delany

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else. — Dana Delany

This parched evening seasons the night with remembrances of rain. — Samuel R. Delany

Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening. — Samuel R. Delany

Stupid heart, Stupid Girl! — Shannon Delany

He wanted to talk and had nothing to say. — Samuel R. Delany

Some moments I believed Max could've easily been Red Riding Hood's wolf. But she probably would have liked it. — Shannon Delany

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity. — Martin Delany

It's easy to repeat; it's hard to speak, — Samuel R. Delany

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. — Samuel R. Delany

I'm a werewolf, not a cretin. We have Blockbuster cards. — Shannon Delany

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life. — Dana Delany

Free will. It sucks because it means we're responsible for our actions. There is no destiny, just difficult decisions. — Shannon Delany

As long as you can see each day as a chance for something new to hapen, something you never experienced before, you'll stay young. — Sarah L. Delany

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains. — Samuel R. Delany

Jo, you're you. And that's as important as you want to make it. — Samuel R. Delany

Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning. — Samuel R. Delany

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. — Samuel R. Delany

When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride. — Ron Delany

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. — Patrick Delany

'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time. — Samuel R. Delany

You do not need an identity to become yourself; you need an identity to become -like- someone else. — Samuel R. Delany

The truth is always multiplex. — Samuel R. Delany

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off. — Samuel R. Delany