The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the...

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress,...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress,...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and...

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and...

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and...

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and...

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by...

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are,...

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that...

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that...

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become...

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful

Horses make a landscape look beautiful

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

This could be our revolution to love what is...plentiful as much as whats scarce.

This could be our revolution to love what is...plentiful as much as whats scarce.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'