Russell Banks Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Russell Banks
Russell Banks Famous Quotes & Sayings
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it is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism.
It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.
He said, Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
Anyone can be a cause of his or her own destruction, but no one can claim individual responsibility for having created a great good.
The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.
Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.
When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.
Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves
Fixing motives is like fixing blame-the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Believes in God the way he believes in politicians-he knows He exists but doesn't count on Him for anything.