Tamar Van

“It had taught him to love his own beauty. Would it teach him to loathe his own soul?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“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.”
― Alice Walker