 I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. |
| Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. |
| The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. |
| The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. |
| 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? |
| It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. |
| For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. |
| All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. |
| Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. |
| 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. |
| Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. |
| Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. |
| No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. |
| The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' |
| In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. |
| It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. |
| Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. |
| Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. |
| How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. |
| I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. |
