Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then. It is being capable of looking after myself intellectually as well as financially. It is being a...
Religion is an elaborate excuse for what man has done to women and to the earth
She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next.
Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.
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...
The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I understand what writing is; what its function is; what it is supposed to do. I learn that the writer's p...
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...
We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.
Subservience of any kind is death to the spirit.
The world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no be...
There because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
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.
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
There is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given i...
And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238
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...
Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?
Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the oth...
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