"If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic."

-- Stevie Smith

#Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes #White Quotes

“You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected.”
“It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.”
“I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy-tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity. Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.”
“I think [Winnie the Pooh] just looks at the world through honey-colored glasses, and everything is honey-fied and sweet for him, and that's not a bad outlook.”
“Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.”
“I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a lot of tweaking to get the details right.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender”

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.”

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