Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.
You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.
Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.