This Week…

“Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness.”
–Joni Mitchell, The Sire of Sorrow

“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”
–Oprah Winfrey

“Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.”
–Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

 “Children go where I send thee. How shall I send thee?”
–Odetta

“I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.'”
–Katherine Dunham 

“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.”
–Sadie Delany

“Children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don’t have no sense”
–Lucille Clifton

“Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” (A reply when asked what jazz is.)
–Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong

“How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden! You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches.”  
–Song of Solomon 7:7-8 (The Bible)

“When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand.”
–Deuteronomy 25:11-12