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A friend makes a moment a moment,
textures the memories of our past
with laughs
with loss
with dance
with trust.
Long live the friends who stayed longer than lovers.
The growing insignificance of blood
when once strangers become sisters and brothers.
textures the memories of our past
with laughs
with loss
with dance
with trust.
Long live the friends who stayed longer than lovers.
The growing insignificance of blood
when once strangers become sisters and brothers.
"You walked a long time to try to burn off some of what you took in, but it still brims under your skin even as your body grows weary and your feet hurt. You are a weapon meant to move mountains. A mere walk can't take that out of you."
"But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical."
“I will tear the whole world apart if they ever hurt us again.”
“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
"But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical."
“I will tear the whole world apart if they ever hurt us again.”
“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
“I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things.
“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
“I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things.
“Sing, Muse, he said, and I have sung. I have sung of armies and I have sung of men. I have sung of gods and monsters, I have sung of stories and lies. I have sung of death and of life, of joy and of pain. I have sung of life after death. And I have sung of the women, the women in the shadows. I have sung of the forgotten, the ignored, the untold.”
“keep a close eye on the worst things that happened to you, they could turn out to be a doorway, a route to someplace else entirely, a map you couldn’t yet read.”
"time to screw her courage to the sticking place, and stick it to everyone"
“Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limitless number of chances to hurt you.”
"time to screw her courage to the sticking place, and stick it to everyone"
“Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limitless number of chances to hurt you.”
“For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren & the women & the womxn & the wimmin & the womyn & our brethren & our bredrin & our brothers & our bruvs & our men & our mandem & the LGBTQI+ members of the human family”
“as if she was the kind of woman who'd amputate her aspirations to become one of his decorative appendages”
“We should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings”
“as if she was the kind of woman who'd amputate her aspirations to become one of his decorative appendages”
“We should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
The audiobook, read by Alice Walker herself, was amazing <3
The audiobook, read by Alice Walker herself, was amazing <3