I think America has always been polarized. It’s a racist country and it has always been.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
We writers – we’re the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.
A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...
I don’t focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.
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.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
You really can’t be a good artist if you can’t say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that’s how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.