Pearl Cleage Men Quotations

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.