Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
From Alice Walker
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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