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We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
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This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
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It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.
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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
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I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
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Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

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What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
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You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

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I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
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