Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain