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...
I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.
In that story I gathered up the historical and psychological threads of the life my ancestors lived, and in the writing of it I felt joy and strength and my own continuity. I had that wonderful feelin...
It is the need to be remembered that has caused most of the trouble in the world,
Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't...
My fantasy life. Without it I'm afraid to exist.
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he lo...
She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look.
She was a literal speaker. What she expressed she both felt and was.
The colonizing mind invites itself wherever it wishes to intrude; it is a worthwhile practice for the coming millennium to train ourselves away from such a mind.
The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.
The endis comingyesterdayit washere too.
The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the...
This was my first indication of the quality I feel is most characteristic of Zora’s work: racial health; a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lackin...
Today Americans, who used to feel welcomed wherever we went, travel abroad with trepidation. We know we are not trusted or liked, that we are even hated, by millions of people around the globe. We mus...
You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.You got to fight them for yourself.I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight,...
You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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