The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof
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.
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.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
The more I wonder, the more I love.
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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