Lalita Tademy > Quotes

“You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River

“This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Sometimes good came out of hurt, compensation came out of pain. He gave with one hand, and He took with the other.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Don’t be so eager to judge, Suzette. You can’t tell how heavy somebody else’s load is just from looking.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“You be surprised what a person got in them to do when the time come.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River

“Fear is a cruel master, but hope die a hard death.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River

“Someone on outside looking in never know the full story.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River

“They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River

“The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“I am the rock in your garden, Emily, and you are the bloom in mine. Count on me.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better,” Philomene said, “what is good enough slips away.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“In freedom, most agree, every step forward has always been accompanied by a step back.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River: A Novel

“She was surrounded by those who thought they offered her the comfort of an outreached palm, unaware that they delivered a fist.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“The women’s way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.”
― Lalita Tademy, Cane River

“Some men good providers, got a way with the soil or a trade. Some men been given a singing voice take you to glory, or magic in they bodies to move in dance and make you feel alive. Some men so pretty you gaze on them with hunger, or so smooth they get hold of words and make you believe”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River: A Novel

“We need education, not bullets. That the only way we win. Not all these white men bad. We got to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. That the only way progress last.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River: A Novel

“Opposing forces close rank, black versus white, Republican versus Democrat, plantation riverbed people versus hill people.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River: A Novel

“Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River

“any nonsense come out they mouth. Some got the gift to make you laugh out loud, and others preach strong and spread the word of God.”
― Lalita Tademy, Red River: A Novel