“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“Everything want to be loved.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“This is a crucial job of being an organizer. You leave a dark basement and try to explain to people in the sunshine what it's like to live down there. I've learned this is best done by bringing these different groups of people together. Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow then to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.”
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“His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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