She say to Sofia, All your children so clean, she say, would you like to work for me, be my maid? Sofia say, Hell no. She say, What you say? Sofia say, Hell no.
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything. God loves admiration. You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thin...
If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figureout how to see people differently
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.
First time I think about the world.What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr ——. Us three set together gainst Tobias and his fly...
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...
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
Every stitch i sew will be a kiss.
Do you know what O'Keefe Says about blue? he asked her, blowing out a cloud of smoke, warming to her voice, though he did not remember her face clearly from the opening night's exhibition.What?That it...
But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something
Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and te...
At menopause, a time of extremely high power and shapeshifting, we are told to behave as though nothing is happening. To continue the game of life as if we are still girls. We are not girls. And to co...
And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems...
And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.
A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.