73 Quotes by Pearl Cleage

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

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.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

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.

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.

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.