 |
Success is a great deodorant. -Elizabeth Taylor |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a good politician.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Gayl Jones, (Nov 23 1949-____), US short story writer, novelist; She has a particular interest in black oral culture; her short stories and novels, notably Corregidora, 1977, capture the black idiom.