What you hope for, you also fear.
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...
Then she added thoughtfully, And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks. And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I...
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.
Shug: More than anything God love admiration. Celie: You saying God is vain? Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a f...
She was a literal speaker. What she expressed she both felt and was.
She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look.
She look me over from head to foot. Then she cackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain't believed it.
My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feel...
My fantasy life. Without it I'm afraid to exist.
Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a rea...
In truth, it made me pity him, and see him as a fool.
If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.
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 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 have the uncanny feeling that, just at the end of my life, I am beginning to reinhabit completely the body I long ago left.
Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing larger...
Existem tantas coisas que nós não compreendemos. E tanta infelicidade acontece por causa disso.
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
Eu unu cred că suntem aici ca să ne mirăm. Să ne mirăm. Să întrebăm. Iar dacă te miri de lucrurile mari şi întrebi de lucrurile mari, atuncea ’nveţi despre alea mărunte, aproape din întâmplare. Da des...