'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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 Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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.
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
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.
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.
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