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> [We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/we-black-women-must-forgive-black-men-for-not-protecting-us-against/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

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## More by Marita Golden

> [I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/i-am-a-stranger-to-half-measures-with-life-i-am-on-the-attack/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/ironically-white-america-will-catapult-books-about-race-to-the-top-of/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [“We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/we-knew-no-one-man-had-killed-the-prophet-rather-the-combined-weight/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/we-black-women-must-forgive-black-men-for-not-protecting-us-against/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/love-is-going-to-replace-life-and-from-then-on-it-s-all-smooth/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/surviving-and-believing-in-tomorrow-is-just-a-habit-i-can-t-break/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/imagination-bound-us-stronger-than-love-within-its-limitless-borders/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/the-symbiotic-relationship-between-reading-and-writing-is-a/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/novelists-have-to-love-humanity-to-write-anything-worthwhile-poets/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/racism-is-a-virus-and-since-nobody-s-really-looking-too-hard-for-a/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/to-my-father-who-told-me-the-stories-that-matter-to-my-mother-who/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [“My life is too important to share with someone who can't understand it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/my-life-is-too-important-to-share-with-someone-who-can-t-understand-it/)

[marita golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/my-mother-used-to-do-all-the-things-that-were-important-to-her-after/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/i-quickly-learned-that-motherhood-was-a-high-wire-act-sometimes/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

> [I am a stranger to half measures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marita-golden/i-am-a-stranger-to-half-measures/)

[Marita Golden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marita-golden/)

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