Best 13 quotes of Bebe Moore Campbell on MyQuotes

African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

His eyesight wasn’t as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.

In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that her pain might be anything he could recognize, almost as though he believed that Negroes had their own special kind of grieving ritual, another language, something other than tears they used to express their sadness.

That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then, well, there's just no telling what they'd do to us." "Who?" Lily asked. "Why, honey, the niggers and our husbands both. I don't care what color they are; men build up steam. And they gotta let it out somewhere. Colored men. White men. They both crazy. Honey, the point is you gotta look at it this way: A whole lotta women can't, "I got a man who'll kill for me."