Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I’m gon keep from killing him, I say.
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...
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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...
It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
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...
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
There because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.
That human compassion is equal to human cruelty and that it is up to each of us to tip the balance. I
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. What it do w...
Two old fools left over from love
They think, after the biggest of the white folks no longer on the earth, the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God, or one mother’s c...
The more I wonder, the more I love.
The heaving sickness past, her nausea gone, her bodily fluids replaced, she felt the lightness of being in the open space around her. Her walls the canyon's walls, she owned them not at all; her floor...
That was the beginning of her abstraction.
She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next.
She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.
My friend says to me:But what can we do? Already giving up.To be aware is already something,I say. Consciousness rarelyleaves us unmoved. Or unmoving.And so it is with this revelationof what has been...
Mas todas as coisas parecem brilhar porque eu tenho uma alma amorosa com a qual dividi-las.
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...