Pearl Cleage Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Pearl Cleage

  School, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage, abcnews.go.com.

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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.

  Pearl Cleage

  Block, Writing, 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.

  Pearl Cleage

  People, African American, Energy

  "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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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.

  Pearl Cleage

  Thinking, Big Sister, Annoying

  Pearl Cleage (1997). “What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day”

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

  Pearl Cleage

  War, Domestic Violence, Lines

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television;
  solitude is herb tea and soft music.

  Pearl Cleage

  Loneliness, Coffee, Being Alone

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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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.

  Pearl Cleage

  Power, Thinking, Should Have

  Pearl Cleage (2001). “I Wish I Had a Red Dress: A Novel”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

  Pearl Cleage

  Paris

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• Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

  Pearl Cleage

  Loneliness, Solitude, Ritual

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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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.

  Pearl Cleage

  Character, Angel, Play

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

  Pearl Cleage

  Writing, Defeat, Fear Not

  Pearl Cleage (2014). “Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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