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Pearl Cleage


Born
in Springfield, Massachusetts, The United States
December 07, 1948

Genre
Fiction


Pearl Cleage is an African-American playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist. She is currently the Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre and at the Just Us Theater Company. Cleage is a political activist. She tackles issues at the crux of racism and sexism, and is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an African-American woman. Her works are highly anthologized and have been the subject of many scholarly analyses. Many of her works across several genres have earned both popular and critical acclaim. Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1997) was a 1998 Oprah's Book Club selection. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 35,356 ratings · 1,834 reviews · 43 distinct works • Similar authors
What Looks Like Crazy on an...
3.75 avg rating — 21,579 ratings — published 1997 — 36 editions
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I Wish I Had a Red Dress (I...
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Babylon Sisters (West End, #2)
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Some Things I Never Thought...
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Baby Brother's Blues (West ...
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Seen It All and Done the Rest
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Things I Should Have Told M...
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Till You Hear from Me (West...
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Just Wanna Testify (West En...
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We Speak Your Names: A Cele...
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Series by Pearl Cleage

What Looks Like Crazy on an... I Wish I Had a Red Dress
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Some Things I Never Thought... Babylon Sisters Baby Brother's Blues Till You Hear from Me Just Wanna Testify
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“We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.”
― Pearl Cleage
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“...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”
― Pearl Cleage, Just Wanna Testify
tags: love, man, strong, truth, weak, woman
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“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”
― Pearl Cleage, Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot
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