“Israel had advanced beyond the Jim Crow South and segregated not just the pools and the fountains, but the water itself.”
― The Message
― The Message
“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something.
What can she become? I asked.
Why, she said, the mother of his children.
But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”
― The Color Purple
What can she become? I asked.
Why, she said, the mother of his children.
But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”
― The Color Purple
“For me revolution was never an interim “thing-to-do” before settling down; it was no fashionable club with newly minted jargon, or new kind of social life—made thrilling by risk and confrontation, made glamorous by costume. Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.”
― An Autobiography
― An Autobiography
“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”
― Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
by all the people
who insist
on love.”
― Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
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