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
racism justice black
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
inspiration knowing speech
Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.
jobs ifs full-time-jobs
...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.
enlightenment brilliant discomfort
Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.
loneliness coffee unique
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.
sweet crazy ordinary-days
We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
being-strong men weak-man
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.