As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
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… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share
“what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight!” — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the contradictions in their lives are so intense they seem manufactured for teaching life lessons, but it's hard to keep up with what you're supposed to be learning in that terrible moment between defiance and despair when all your energy is going into figuring out why it took so long to name the thing that's driving you crazy. At… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share
“em,” she said softly. “That guy with the sexy voice told ’em to get ready” — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
