Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.
You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair...
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.
You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song th...
You do your rebellions any way you can.
You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to re...
You gotta imagine what's never been.
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside.’ She held out her hand to me. ‘Give me your hand.’ I lifted...
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
You just don't interrupt somebody's mourning with your own problems.
You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it, they saw Mary, and so the spirit of Mary took it over. Really, her spirit...
You know, some things don't matter that much...Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters.
You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is not some other kind of creature than we are. Whiteness is not sacred. It can't on defi...
You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say,...
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