Quotes About Strength

All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

You know, he say, you use to remind me of a bird. Way back when you first come to live with me. You was so skinny, Lord, he say. And the least little thing happen, you looked about to fly away.

Let us bring our attention to George's mother. She who came, weeping, and picked up the shattered pieces of her child, as black mothers have done for so long.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any

my friend comes. And cramps and aches and pains—but I must still keep going as if nothing is happening, or be an embarrassment

Don't let them run over you, Nettie say. You got to let them know who got the upper hand.

You got to fight them, Celie,' she say. 'I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself.

He strong in body but weak in will.

She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I say it's cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.

She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.

Some womens can't be beat.

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men.

THEY CANNOT KILL US, BECAUSE WITHOUT US THEY DIE.

RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY! it says in huge block letters.

She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

Shug act more manly than most men, I mean she upright, honest. Speak her mind and the devil take the hindmost, he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what. Mr. -- thin all this is stuff men do. But Harpo not like this, I tell him. You not like this. What Shug got is womanly it seem like to me. Specially since she and Sofia the ones got it.

breaking the heart opens it.

Carlotta had not dreamed her numbed heart could be broken still more, or that breaking the heart opens it.

her first published book, Once (1965).

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Mientras pueda decir D-i-o-s, sabré que hay alguien conmigo.

Each woman is capable of truly bringing another into the world. This we must all do for each other.

Every lick you hit me you will suffer twice