Everything want to be loved.
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.
Of what was plastic made? What died? He knew it was a product of petroleum, of oil, and so he assumed plastic was made out of the very lifeblood of the planet. When all the oil was drained, he imagine...
On Stripping Bark from Myself(for Jane, who said trees die from it)Because women are expected to keep silent abouttheir close escapes I will not keep silentand if I am destroyed (naked tree!) someone...
She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. When it gives me trouble, she’d sneer, I’ll call y’all.
That she had seen the magazines we receive from home and that it was very clear to her that black people did not truly admire blackskinned black people like herself, and especially did not admire blac...
The mysterious inner life that she had imagined gave them a secret joy was simply a full knowledge of the fact that they were dead, living just enough for their children.
The savage rushing of the river seemed to be inside her head, inside her body. Even when the oarswomen, their guides, were speaking to her, she had the impression she couldn't quite hear them because...
When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.
Why do tired people sing?
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not...
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
All womens not alike, Tobias, she say. Believe it or not.Oh, I believe it, he say. Just can't prove it to the world.
HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than t...
He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stori...
I have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago left.
I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know...
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