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" A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. "
Soul
Government
Good
" All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. "
Somewhere
World
History
" 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. "
Must
Understanding
Experience
" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "
America
Long
Done
" And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. "
See
Spark
Seed
" Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. "
Week
Rest
Observe
" Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. "
Any
God
Me
" A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. "
Future
People
Duty
" Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get. "
Speak
Deserve
Responsibility
" 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. "
Care
Young
Best
" As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul. "
You
Heart
People
" As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening. "
Beautiful
Truth
Today
" As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. "
School
Know
Fear
" At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. "
Me
Growing
Child
" At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. "
Dancing
Art
Makeup
" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "
Who
People
Other
" Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. "
Wisdom
Patience
Women
" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "
Way
You
Triumph
" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "
David
Reminded
Malcolm
" 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. "
Art
Book
Good
" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "
Happy
People
Yourself
" Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. "
Life
You
Will
" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "
Nothing
Expect
Surprise
" Fear is real, but so is love. "
Real
Love
Fear
" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "
Someone
Freedom
Fly
" For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. "
Long
Long Time
Time
" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "
Great
Me
Muse
" For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. "
Living
Present
Life
" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "
Clear
Work
Sweet
" 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. "
Partnership
Create
Creation
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