There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
