Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
I said, Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?He snorted. You're right, the only deliverance is the one we get for ourselves. The Lord doesn't have any hands and feet but ours.That doesn't...
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves...
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache fo...
Ich beneidete die Schildkroeten um ihre Panzer in denen sie jederzeit verschwinden konnten.
August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--Lily: They don't know what matters and...
Women made the best beekeepers, cause they have a special ability in them to love creatures that sting.
The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees
Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
So few people know what they're capable of.
My mauma was shrewd. She didn’t get any reading and writing like me. Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.
Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn’t have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log...
He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in order to heal and differentiate themselves from it.
I believe in the goodness of imagination.
You do your rebellions any way you can.
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman...
To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.
The day life turned into nothing this world could fix,
Sunset is the saddest light there is.