February 2011
19 posts
Toni Morrison on Anger
Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling —- I don’t think it’s any of that —- it’s helpless … it’s absence of control —- and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that —-...
“She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by...”
– Zora Neale TEWWG. Brilliance and beauty in every word.
Alice Walker on Janie
I love the way Janie Crawford
left her husbands
the one who wanted to change her
into a mule
and the other who tried to interest her
in being a queen.
A woman, unless she submits,
is neither a mule
nor a queen
though like a mule she may suffer
and like a queen pace the floor
“….being in love with a coward is exhausting.”
– Ola Ronke (via dreamhampton1)
“That element of truth is that, because of sexism (as much as racism, generally,...”
– Alice Walker. Glory.
“When I’m writing, I never feel lonely. In fact, I’m more likely to feel lonely,...”
– Dani Shapiro (via literary-labyrinth)
“- Don’t say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am...”
– Anais Nin (via Warsan Shire’s tumblr <3 )
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde (via amindwithnoceiling)
Factsheet on Police Containment of and Violence in... →
