Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. |
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. |
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. |
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. |
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. |
The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff. |
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. |
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. |
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any |
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?' |
The original ''crime'' of ''niggers'' and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. |
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout |
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. |
They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice Stout of step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And ironed Starched white Shirts How they led Armies Headragged Generals Across mined Fields Booby trapped |
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? |