Kimberly > Kimberly's Quotes

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”
― Pearl Cleage, Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot

“If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.”
― Pearl Cleage

“Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.”
― Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me

“what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight!”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.”
― Pearl Cleage

“I know once you repent, Jesus himself isn't big on punishment, but according to all the Old Testament stories, I ever heard, his was not above it”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.”
― Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me

“Both men knew the only thing more valuable than a favor well done was a secret well kept. This had the potential to be both.”
― Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me

“sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a to learn the appropriate greeting!”
― Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.”
― Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me

“Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.”
― Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“i found god in myself
and i loved her
i loved her fiercely”
― Ntozake Shange

“one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry.”
― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

“Through my tears
I found god in myself
and I loved her fiercely”
― Ntozake Shange

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
― bell hooks