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

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" I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life. "

" Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. "

" I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really? "

" I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. "

" Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. "

" I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. "

" What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore. "

" Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. "

" It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. "

" I start each book when it's ready and never before. "

" You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. "

" 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. "

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "

" My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? "

" June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. "

" I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. "

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

" I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. "

" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "

" Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. "

" 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. "

" I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. "

" We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. "

" I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her. "

" I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. "

" I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. "

" Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. "