for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976)
Variant: i found god in myself
& i loved her/i loved her fiercely
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
“Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.”
#64
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
You Are The Sunshine of My Life
Song lyrics, Talking Book (1972)
“In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.”
Act i, scene 1.
Douglas (first performed 1756)
“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”
Source: The Color Purple
