Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Bebe Moore Campbell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Bebe Moore Campbell.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Bebe Moore Campbell

Bebe Moore Campbell was an American author, journalist and teacher. Campbell was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001". Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies.

I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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.
I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing. — © Bebe Moore Campbell
Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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.
When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.
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.
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.
Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.
Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.
You live your life between your ears.
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.
Knowing who you are begins in the mind.
My color is my joy and not my burden.
Discipline is the servant of inspiration.
The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for. — © Bebe Moore Campbell
The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.
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