Pearl Cleage Quotes

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Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Pearl Cleage
Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

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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.

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But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

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Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

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No woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

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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.

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Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

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You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

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I think all negotiations should take place at a round table and everybody should have to rotate counterclockwise once an hour so that even the perception of head of the table, or foot, are ritually obliterated.

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What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

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Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

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