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Top 25 Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quotes (2025 Update)

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “There is no greater right for a woman than having a choice, Anne. And I exercised that right. Fully and consciously.”

1. “There is no greater right for a woman than having a choice, Anne. And I exercised that right. Fully and consciously.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Sometimes love can kill you, just like hate. You love too hard and you can lose yourself in other folks’ sorrow.”

2. “Sometimes love can kill you, just like hate. You love too hard and you can lose yourself in other folks’ sorrow.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Sometimes love can kill you, just like hate. You love too hard and you can lose yourself in other folks’ sorrow. You hate too hard and you know the rest of that story. Take care of yourself. You can’t help others if you’re down and out. I have to remind myself of that all the time.” “I never thought a nun would tell me I could love too hard.” “Only Jesus’s love is infinite, Miss Townsend.”

3. “Sometimes love can kill you, just like hate. You love too hard and you can lose yourself in other folks’ sorrow. You hate too hard and you know the rest of that story. Take care of yourself. You can’t help others if you’re down and out. I have to remind myself of that all the time.” “I never thought a nun would tell me I could love too hard.” “Only Jesus’s love is infinite, Miss Townsend.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “There are a lot of things a mother can say to hurt her child, even long after the child is an adult.”

4. “There are a lot of things a mother can say to hurt her child, even long after the child is an adult.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “When I arrive in Jackson I’m not just thinking of Evers, I’m also thinking of Fannie Lou Hamer and her use of the phrase Mississippi Appendectomy.”

5. “When I arrive in Jackson I’m not just thinking of Evers, I’m also thinking of Fannie Lou Hamer and her use of the phrase Mississippi Appendectomy.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Sometimes love can kill you, just like hate. You love too hard and you can lose yourself in other folks’ sorrow. You hate too hard and you know the rest of that story.”

6. “Sometimes love can kill you, just like hate. You love too hard and you can lose yourself in other folks’ sorrow. You hate too hard and you know the rest of that story.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “The past doesn’t work that way. You can’t just make it disappear. You can’t pretend certain things didn’t happen.”

7. “The past doesn’t work that way. You can’t just make it disappear. You can’t pretend certain things didn’t happen.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to decide what to do with them.”

8. “Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to decide what to do with them.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Miss Pope whispered, “Now, you know how some white folks feel about Black bodies. They think we can tolerate pain better than them. According to some of these documents I’m about to show you, some of them even thought syphilis couldn’t kill us. It was as much an experiment about the effects of the disease as it was a crazy white man’s idea of a laboratory game with Black bodies.”

9. “Miss Pope whispered, “Now, you know how some white folks feel about Black bodies. They think we can tolerate pain better than them. According to some of these documents I’m about to show you, some of them even thought syphilis couldn’t kill us. It was as much an experiment about the effects of the disease as it was a crazy white man’s idea of a laboratory game with Black bodies.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Medicine has taught me, really taught me, to accept the things I cannot change. A difficult-to-swallow serenity prayer.”

10. “Medicine has taught me, really taught me, to accept the things I cannot change. A difficult-to-swallow serenity prayer.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “It baffled me how hatred and goodness could coexist. The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her.”

11. “It baffled me how hatred and goodness could coexist. The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “A lot of Black women in the South had that dream of becoming a housewife back then. We called it “sitting down.”

12. “A lot of Black women in the South had that dream of becoming a housewife back then. We called it “sitting down.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “I was too wrapped up in my hurt to even articulate my feelings to myself, let alone to him.”

13. “I was too wrapped up in my hurt to even articulate my feelings to myself, let alone to him.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “You are now the age that I was then, and I hope you will benefit from the wisdom of our mistakes. This knowledge, this triumph, can, if we let it, make all of us stronger. If we let it.”

14. “You are now the age that I was then, and I hope you will benefit from the wisdom of our mistakes. This knowledge, this triumph, can, if we let it, make all of us stronger. If we let it.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her.”

15. “The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “They were more than illiterate farmers, more than victims who’d been duped by the federal government. They were a family who, given other opportunities, could have accomplished much more.”

16. “They were more than illiterate farmers, more than victims who’d been duped by the federal government. They were a family who, given other opportunities, could have accomplished much more.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “I want you to know something. Of course I had opportunities at love. They didn’t work out, but I have not been entirely loveless. And yes, I took prophylactic precautions with a dedication that was more powerful than any maternal urge. These were my decisions. There is no greater right for a woman than having a choice, Anne. And I exercised that right. Fully and consciously.”

17. “I want you to know something. Of course I had opportunities at love. They didn’t work out, but I have not been entirely loveless. And yes, I took prophylactic precautions with a dedication that was more powerful than any maternal urge. These were my decisions. There is no greater right for a woman than having a choice, Anne. And I exercised that right. Fully and consciously.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Good intentions, we now knew, did not excuse the wounding.”

18. “Good intentions, we now knew, did not excuse the wounding.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided.”

19. “She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “And with that, the training was over. One week. A fifty-page orientation manual, half of which concerned cleaning the rooms and the toilet, and keeping the supply closet organized. We had spent three days just going over that part. Long enough to question if we’d been hired as maids or nurses.”

20. “And with that, the training was over. One week. A fifty-page orientation manual, half of which concerned cleaning the rooms and the toilet, and keeping the supply closet organized. We had spent three days just going over that part. Long enough to question if we’d been hired as maids or nurses.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Although I refused to believe there was such a thing as an unwanted child, there was such a thing as an unwanted pregnancy – and I could speak to that firsthand.”

21. “Although I refused to believe there was such a thing as an unwanted child, there was such a thing as an unwanted pregnancy – and I could speak to that firsthand.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “For as long as I can remember, the women in my family have made the best life they knew how. I bet when you first come out to the house on old man Adair’s place, you thought I was a nasty woman.”

22. “For as long as I can remember, the women in my family have made the best life they knew how. I bet when you first come out to the house on old man Adair’s place, you thought I was a nasty woman.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Everything was lopsided. Volunteering their personal information was part of the bargain of public assistance. Tell us everything about yourself and, in return, we’ll hand you a sliver of a slice of American pie. In the meantime, we won’t tell you anything, not even what we’re going to do for you.”

23. “Everything was lopsided. Volunteering their personal information was part of the bargain of public assistance. Tell us everything about yourself and, in return, we’ll hand you a sliver of a slice of American pie. In the meantime, we won’t tell you anything, not even what we’re going to do for you.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “This was the way I figured it. There were all different kinds of ministers. Ministers of congregations. Ministers of music. To minister was to serve.”

24. “This was the way I figured it. There were all different kinds of ministers. Ministers of congregations. Ministers of music. To minister was to serve.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “When it becomes clear that a woman of a certain age has not married or had children, folks like to think there’s something wrong with her.”

25. “When it becomes clear that a woman of a certain age has not married or had children, folks like to think there’s something wrong with her.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Quote: “Working in the name of the good did not negate the hurt. As long as these injustices continued, all of us were culpable.”

26. “Working in the name of the good did not negate the hurt. As long as these injustices continued, all of us were culpable.”

— Dolen Perkins-Valdez

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