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Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.
— Pearl Cleage
Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.
— Pearl Cleage
Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.
— Albert B. Cleage Jr.
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
— Pearl Cleage
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
— Pearl Cleage
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
— Pearl Cleage
I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.
— Pearl Cleage
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, looks a lot like love when you catch it in the moonlight.
— Pearl Cleage
No woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
— Pearl Cleage
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
— Pearl Cleage
...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.
— Pearl Cleage
When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.
— Pearl Cleage
Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.
— Pearl Cleage
But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
— Pearl Cleage
I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!
— Pearl Cleage
I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.
— Pearl Cleage
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
— Pearl Cleage
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
— Pearl Cleage
I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
— Pearl Cleage
If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.
— Pearl Cleage
A lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.
— Pearl Cleage
Old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!
— Pearl Cleage
Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.
— Pearl Cleage
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
— Pearl Cleage
Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.
— Pearl Cleage
