One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some
blundering fool may try to make a read more

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some
blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's
ear.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that
spots are rather a credit.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that
spots are rather a credit.

The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising:
There are forty feeding like one!

The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising:
There are forty feeding like one!

The animals of the world exist
for their own reasons. They were
not made for humans any more read more

The animals of the world exist
for their own reasons. They were
not made for humans any more
than black people were made for
whites or women for men.
She is author of The Color Purple.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on read more

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much
Like something with no living of its own.

I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much
Like something with no living of its own.

we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which we
spear the muscles of innocent animals.

we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which we
spear the muscles of innocent animals.