Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.- Alice Walker
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
