Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
From Alice Walker
You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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