The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’
The trouble with our society is that we don’t teach our girls to be brave.
I’m so glad I didn’t die before I got old.
The most exciting thing in the world is trust.
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
I realize that I don’t change the world with my words alone, but by living my life well.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.
What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you.
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening.
We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
The thing that drove me insane was the fact that I was writing for adults, and I just couldn’t see why they should have the best of everything.
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves.
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way. I can’t apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to. We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful. We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
I find writing to be a tremendous discipline.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.
I’m so glad I didn’t die before I got old.
The trouble with our society is that we don’t teach our girls to be brave.
There are whole years for which I’m not responsible for.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
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.
I’m poor. I’m black. I may even be ugly. But, dear God, I’m here. I’m here.
I am grateful that I was able to receive guidance from great teachers who taught me to trust the wisdom from within.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
I don’t like to write. I like to have written.
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