Quotes About Vulnerability

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labor. The human heart is so robust, so tough, that once encouraged it beats its rhythm with a loud unswerving insistency.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

I'm happy...I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that's happy.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.

It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... - Maya Angelou

If you don't protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you.

Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The

Modesty is a learned adaptation. It's stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper.

The laughter was sour and not really directed at white women. It was a traditional ruse that was used to shield the black vulnerability; we laughed to keep from crying.

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all.

He explained when we were smaller that when things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep.

Continue To dare to love deeply And risk everything For the good thing Continue

Be careful when a naked person gives you a shirt.

We cackled like two old crones, remembering a secret past. The laughter was sour and not really directed at white women. It was a traditional ruse that was used to shield the Black vulnerability; we laughed to keep from crying.

Usually when one throw's oneself at another's feet, one should be prepared to do a fast roll to avoid being stepped on.

It wasn't wise to reveal one's real feelings to strangers. And nothing on earth was stranger to me than a friendly white woman.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness." —

Here this clean mirror traps me unwilling in a gone time when I was love and you were booted and brave and trembling for me.

It's the same as if I just handed you a knife and offered you my balls, for God's sake. And I don't even give a fuck. Because I have no pride when it comes to you. There is nothing I wouldn't do or say to make you understand that I love you. I fucking love you. There, I said it. Do you believe me now? He sounded so pissed off and angry that the admission had been torn from him that she had to battle the smile forming on her lips.