Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
Once there was a beautiful young panther who had a co-wife and a husband. Her name was Lara and she was unhappy because her husband and her co-wife were really in love; being nice to her was merely a...
You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the choir, feed the preacher and all like that?But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do al...
When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.
What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a myst...
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.
In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man...
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...
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...
Choosesomeoneto lovewhowouldn’t evenhearof it.
Bible say, Honor father and mother no matter what. Then after while every tune I got mad, or start to feels mad. I got sick. Felt like throwing up.Terrible feeling. Then I start to feel Nothing at all...
The earth on which we live is the body of God. All people and living things are the body and soul of God. And...we serve God not by making the earth and its people suffer but by making the earth and i...
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
There could be no happy community in which there was one unhappy child.
When Toni Morrison said she writes the kind of books she wants to read, she was acknowledging the fact that in a society in which accepted literature is so often sexist and racist and otherwise irrele...
Spanish moss draggled bloody to the ground; amen corners creaked with grief; and the thrill of being able, once again, to endure unendurable loss produced so profound an ecstasy in mourners that they...