Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleageis an African-American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah Book Club selection. Cleage is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an African-American woman. Cleage teaches drama at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 December 1948
CountryUnited States of America
snakes want gardener
You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.
block writing thinking
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.
writing discipline paper
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
school home america
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 for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)
thinking big-sister annoying
If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.
writing defeat fear-not
But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
order want sometimes
Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.
loneliness coffee being-alone
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.
crazy like-love ordinary-days
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
success commitment writing
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
power thinking should-have
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.
character angel play
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.
falling-in-love writing insane
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
war domestic-violence lines
Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.