Tashi’s mother and father were just here. They are upset because she spends so much time with Olivia. She is changing, becoming quiet and too thoughtful, they say. She is becoming someone else; her fa...
One good thing bout the way he never do any work round the place, us never miss him when he gone.
If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.
I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
Há qualquer faceta em todos nós que deseja uma medalha por aquilo que temos feito. Essa faceta deseja ser apreciada.
He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make...
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast.Take the contradictionsOf your lifeAnd wrap aroundYou like a shawl,
All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58)
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my famil...
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Once there was a beautiful young panther who had a co-wife and a husband. Her name was Lara and she was unhappy because her husband and her co-wife were really in love; being nice to her was merely a...
You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the choir, feed the preacher and all like that?But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do al...
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.
Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail. I give it to him straight, just like it come to me. And it seem to come to me from the trees.
She thought of how diligently she’d worked to free herself. Difficult because of the shock she was in, discovering she was trapped, captured most of all by possessions.