Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Bebaskan saya dari penulis yang mengatakan cara mereka hidup tidak penting. Saya tidak yakin orang jahat bisa menulis buku yang bagus, Jika seni tidak membuat kita lebih baik, lalu untuk apa buku itu.
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Fiksi adalah dunia kebebasan, ini luar biasa. Jika Anda ingin seseorang terbang, mereka bisa terbang.