Quotes by : Margo Jefferson

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached....

I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your....

What's often not acknowledged about depression is how much anger is in it.

As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yeats's....

I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness,....

If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and....

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to....