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Pearl Cleage (born December 7, 1948) is an African American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah Book Club selection. Cleage is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an African American woman. Cleage teaches drama at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and is the Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre.

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If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.

Annoy, Annoying, Big Sister, Reason, Thinking, Thinks

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.

Lists, Littles, Older, Shorter, Stuff, Young

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

Coffee, Hear, Loneliness, Music, Self Worth, Unique

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Being Alone, Coffee, Herb, Loneliness, Soft

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Old Habits, Impossible, Break, Habits

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.

Come, Forward, Good Man, Kind, Men, Woman

Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

Block, Down, Paper, People, Thinking, Writing

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

Aspects, Know, People, Thinking, Time, Unique

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Diversity, Justice, Racism, Response, Sexism

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Fabulous, Force, Forces Of Nature, Vera, Stark

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.

Success, Writing, Commitment, Make, Everyday, Think

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

Defeat, Defeats, Fear, Fear Not, Masterpiece, Writing

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

Inspiration, Knowing, Speech, Hard, Yes, Faced

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

Eddie, Gardener, Person, Save, Snakes, Want

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

Class, Lessons, Knows, Meaning, Know

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

Loneliness, Solitude, Ritual

. . . freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

Freedom, Full Time Jobs, Ifs, Job, Jobs, Let

I think all negotiations should take place at a round table and everybody should have to rotate counterclockwise once an hour so that even the perception of head of the table, or foot, are ritually obliterated.

Hour, Obliterated, Place, Power, Should Have, Thinking

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

Against, Domestic Violence, Front, Line, Lines, War

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

Sisterhood, Funny Things, Easy, Hard, Thing

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