Quotes by Alden Nowlan

• Being a foreigner is not a disease.
• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
• Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.