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" David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. "

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" We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" It is important to remember yourself. "

" I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. "

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

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America. "

" I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people. "

" In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid. "

" The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. "

" I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. "

" People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "

" War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. "

" People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

" I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. "

" Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors. "

" If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were. "

" I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve. "

" Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. "

" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

" There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. "

" 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. "

" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "