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

- Pearl Cleage

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

- Pearl Cleage

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

- Pearl Cleage

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth,…

- 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

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

- Pearl Cleage

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

- Pearl Cleage

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

- Pearl Cleage

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 …

- Pearl Cleage