And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
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.