Quotes by Pearl Cleage - Page 1

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.
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Fabulous
Force
Forces Of Nature
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Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.
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Loneliness
Ritual
Solitude
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I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!
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...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.
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Jobs
Full Time Jobs
Ifs
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old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!
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Break
Impossible
Old Habits
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Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.
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Brilliant
Discomfort
Enlightenment
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you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
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Class
Knows
Lessons
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Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.
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War
Domestic Violence
Lines
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...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
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Men
Being Strong
Weak Man
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Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.
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Easy
Funny Things
Sisterhood
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the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!
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Knowing
Possibility
Problem
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I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.
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Rehearsal
Rehearsal Process
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But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
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Defeat
Fear Not
Writing
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Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.
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Being Alone
Coffee
Loneliness
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a lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.
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Brother
Making Love
Sex
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I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.
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Excitement
Campaign
Jackson
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I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.
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Activists
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Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
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Diversity
Justice
Racism
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What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
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Crazy
Like Love
Ordinary Days
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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.
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Order
Sometimes
Want
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When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
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Author
Main Character
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If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.
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Annoying
Big Sister
Thinking
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As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
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African American
Energy
Our Time
People
Time Energy People
Blaming
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Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
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Denzel
Ensemble
Movie Star
Denzel Washington
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Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
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Discipline
Journal
Paper
Writing
Great Way
Regularly
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I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
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Romantic
Lovers
Mistaken
Comedies
Identities
Romantic Comedies
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If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
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Lasting
Sea
Hughes
One Book
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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.
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Lists
Littles
Stuff
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I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
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Secretary
Press
Press Secretary
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I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
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Falling In Love
Insane
Writing
Love Romantic Comedy
Falling
Nicer
Romantic Comedy
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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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Gardener
Snakes
Want
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Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.
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Conscious
Dealing
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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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Men
Good Man
Kind
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I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors.
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Lighting
Me Always Your
Marks
Playwrights
Tech
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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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Power
Should Have
Thinking
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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.
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Inspiration
Knowing
Speech
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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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Believe
Buddhist
Privacy
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When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.
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Be Prepared
Prepared
Truth Is
Strip
Task
Voices
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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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Coffee
Loneliness
Self Worth
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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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Home
Believe
Flower
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I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.
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Black Community
Clean
Peaceful
Responsibility
Responsible
Safe
School
Streets
Thinking
Houses
Personally
Schools
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Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
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Block
Confusion
Critical
Great Idea
Paper
Thinking
Writing
Craft
Skill
Task
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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Success
Commitment
Writing
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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.
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Crazy
Ordinary Days
Sweet
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When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.
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Angel
Character
Play
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I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.
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Communicate
People
Thinking
Unique
Life Time Experience
Aspects
Carries
Creates
Gather
Shared
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I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.
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Good Girl
Good Better People
Heads
Voices
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It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)
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Home
America
School
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