Sue Monk Kidd Quotes - Page 9

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• "Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."

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  Sports, Football, Successful

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

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  Girl, Thinking, Skins

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

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• I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

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  Writing, Feelings, Keepers

  "Kidd, Taylor take personal journey with Pomegranates". Interview with Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. September 13, 2009.

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• Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

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  Character, Empathy, Novel

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• I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

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  Summer, Racism, Voters

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• Every little thing wants to be loved.

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  Love, Bees And Honey, Want

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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• Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

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  Mother, Daughter, Women

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• I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

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  Hurt, Two, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.95, Penguin

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• Sunset is the saddest light there is.

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  Sunset, Light, Saddest

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.50, Penguin

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• Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.

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  Running, Grief, Talking

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• I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

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  August, Hands, Giving

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

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  Spiritual, Determination, Journey

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• You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

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  Home, World, Sides

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.53, Penguin

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• You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

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  Bird, Secret, Brain

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• I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.

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  Ocean, Sleep, Missing

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.134, Penguin

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• Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

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  Good Night, Mother, Mistake

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.256, Penguin

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• the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

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  Sunset, Night, Blue

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.225, Penguin

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• I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

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  Being In Love, Different, Amazed

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 04, 2014

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• T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.

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  Art, Men, Thinking

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.16, Penguin

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• He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

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  Years, Church, Gone

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.3, Penguin

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• The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

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  Wrong Things, Verge

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• ... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

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  Mean, Female, Paganism

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