What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Like I said...fine with me.
Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or...
Why should the killers of the world be the future and not us?
We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care beca...
The real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplifying history and writing it down (or reciting it) for the o...
I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That’s how come I know trees fear man.
Becauseyou rubbed my shoulderlast nighta poem
Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me,...
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could...
There was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself—only for winning.
Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.
The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What wo...
Tashi dice que quiere enfrentarse al pelotón de fusilamiento vestida de rojo. Le recuerdo que su sentencia está siendo apelada. También cabe la esperanza de que los Estados Unidos hagan valer la ciuda...
For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a m...
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let t...
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.