“We are cruel enough without meaning to be.”
“Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it.”
“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
“We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?”
“What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.”
“A goal without a method is cruel.”