“Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You can’t understand. That’s how come you stand there feeding me empty slogans!” Luciente bowed her head. “You crit me justly, Connie. Forgive me. I’ll try to see your situation more clearly and make less loud noises in your ears.”

“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.”

“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.”

“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”

“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”

“Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

“What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.”

“Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.”

“Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.”

“Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.”

“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”