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.
As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.;Alexander Pope;education 16030;The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.;Diogenes;education 16031;What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.;Stephen King;education 16032;I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.
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.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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.
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.