Let ’im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.
It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.
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
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we d...
Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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
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...
As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.
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
A womanist)3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the s...
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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.
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...
Subservience of any kind is death to the spirit.
Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.You ought to bash Mr —— head open,...
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.
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...