It's All Love Quotes

“Kupenda KWAME ALEXANDER I have never been a slave Yet, I know I am whipped I have never escaped underground Yet, the night knows my journey I have never been to Canada Yet I’ve crossed your border If I were a poet in love I’d say that with you I have found that new place Where romance is just a beginning And freedom is our end.”
― Marita Golden, It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends

“African-American history is so much more than the Middle Passage, assassinated prophets, a catalog of the dead and dying, the imprisoned and the failing among us. The human spirit is never summed up or adequately captured by a litany only of its weakness, confusion, and fear.”
― Marita Golden, It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends

“I also remembered that love and commitment can flourish without a wedding ring. Neither a ceremony nor sharing the key to the same house is a guarantee of readiness to give of oneself and to be fully open to another, which is what the bonds of real love entail. Quiet as it’s kept, love is not easily defined, quickly mastered, or nonchalantly tossed aside.”
― Marita Golden, It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends