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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black wo...more

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I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white wo...more

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There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don’t even look at...more

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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable ...more

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On Stripping Bark from Myself(for Jane, who said trees die from it)Because women are expected to keep silent abouttheir close escapes I will not keep ...more

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He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matt...more

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Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

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The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.Our women are respected here, said the father. We would never let them tr...more

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She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cr...more

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Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them...more

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First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man